• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 06 / 24 / 2011

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2011.06.23 - 15:35:16 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, Cuba.- Uganda’s Health Minister Christine Ondoa met in Kampala on Thursday with the president of Cuba’s LABIOFAM Business Group Jose Antonio Fraga Castro to discuss cooperation actions for the fight against Malaria in the African nation.

Fraga Castro, in representation of the Cuban Pharmaceutical and Biological Labs presented a project to authorities of the African country on April 2010 through which the island would help Uganda in the battle against that disease. The project is fully supported by General Yoweri Museveni, the President of that nation, says a report on the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s website.

In the current visit, Fraga Castro, who is accompanied by other LABIOFAM experts, told Ondoa Cuba has been collaborating with African, Asian and Latin American nations for years and referred in particular to the institution’s interest in giving a boost to the program against Malaria, which shows high mortality rates in that country, particularly in children and pregnant women.

Fragas Castro said Cuba was willing to expand cooperation with Uganda and to develop joint projects for plague control and vaccine production, among other areas.

LABIOFAM is an institution dedicated to the development and production of medicaments backed up by the ministries of Public Health and Science, Technology and Environment, the State Center for Drug Control and the Cuban Office for Industrial Property.

Ondoa thanked Fragas Castro for the information provided and took advantage of the meeting to thank the Cuban government for helping in the liberation of African nations, and for the medical and educational help provided to many countries in that continent and particularly to Uganda.

She said her ministry was open to collaborate with the island specially in the fight against Malaria and reiterated Museveni’s interest in developing cooperation bonds with Cuba.

Uganda’s president visit Cuba last in December 2009 at the invitation of his counterpart Raul Castro.
(ACN)