“We are strengthening the public health institutes in African Portuguese speaking countries and creating the Sao Tome and Principe Institute, and there are many concrete actions that derive from this cooperation with CPLP. [CPLP]’,” said Nicia Lima Lusa, on the last day of her visit to Portugal.
The official pointed out that “the direct visit came as a result of the foundation’s cooperation with the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries, which intensified in the past fifteen years, with the approval of the Strategic Health Plan for the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, in 2009,” noting that the purpose of the meetings Held in Portugal was “Strengthening the points of update and experience of the epidemic and the need felt by the countries of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries to strengthen cooperation with FioCruz”.
When asked about the challenges of the times ahead, Nicia Lima answered: “We have the challenge of strengthening primary care in countries, which is one of the lessons learned from the epidemic, and strengthening scientific and technological capabilities in all countries.”
The FioCruz leader spoke to Lusa at the end of a meeting at CPLP Headquarters, in Lisbon, with the Director General of the Community, Ambassador Armindo de Brito Fernandes, and with the Director of CPLP Cooperation, Manuel Clarote Lapão.
“We have focused on continuing to support the health institutes of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and we have already reworked the institutes in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, which are now a reference for the World Health Organization in Africa, and we have established an institute in Cape Verde,” said Manuel Labau, stressing that the next step is that Do the same in Sao Tome and Principe.
“We have to re-transform the operating model in Angola and create the Institute of Public Health in Sao Tome and Principe and in Timor-Leste, where it does not exist yet,” the official said, concluding that “by creating the Institute in Sao Tome and transforming the Institute in Angola, the Community of Language-Speaking Countries owns The Portuguese integrated network of health institutes, striving to achieve the same success that it achieved in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, an institute that has grown significantly and has become a reference.”
FioCruz’s mission is to promote health and social development, and to generate and disseminate scientific and technological knowledge. These are the concepts that guide the work of the Foundation, which is linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which is today the largest reference in Latin America in terms of health research, according to the Foundation.
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