• Submitted by: lena campos
• Science and Technology
• 08 / 24 / 2013

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Gabon and Cuba signed a cooperation agreement to start a national program of malaria control and combating vectors, said here a Cuban representative.

Jose Antonio Fraga, director of Labiofam Business Group, said that the service contract was recently signed by the body he head and the Minister of Public Health of Gabon, Leon N'zouba, in the presence of that country's president, Ali Bongo Ondimba.

In statements to Prensa Latina said that to carry out the project in September a Cuban brigade will arrive in the African country, composed of 18 specialists from the Pharmaceutical Biological Laboratories (Labiofam).

Fraga also noted the ongoing work of Cuban medical personnel in the country of the west central Africa, which has a population over a 1.5 million inhabitants.

He also expressed that President Bongo Ondimba, thanked the Cuban collaboration and sent fraternal greetings to the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, for his recent 87th birthday, and President Raul Castro.

The Cuban delegation thanked Gabon for the strong UN condemnation of the criminal and unjust economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States for more than half a century, he said.

Fraga, quien realiza una gira de trabajo por varios países africanos, consideró como un gran logro de Labiofam la suscripción de un convenio con Guinea Ecuatorial, que garantiza la continuidad del programa de control de vectores en esa nación.

In the territory of Equatorial Guinea is a group of Cuban specialists, who work intensively in the eradication of malaria and rats, using proven biological products, he said.

Accompanied by Cuban collaborators, Labiofam representative visited Tuesday Angolan communities in the municipality of Viana, in which he found the work of a brigade, applying larvicide products like Bactivec for the annihilation of mosquito larvae.

According to recent statistics from the Ministry of Health in Angola, before about 20,000 people each year die in this country because of malaria, while currently only less than five thousand die in that period.

Source: Prensa Latina