Leaving for Pemba
Insert in News the day September 17, 2009
In Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania), for the start of the course and of the new projects, as well as the update of the current ones. These are the main goals of the representatives of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation, leaving for the island on September 18th and 19th: Marco Albonico (Secretary General and Scientific Director), Deborah Cocorullo (Project Manager) and Camilla Veronese (events and fundraising).
While on the island, among other activities, trials on new diagnostic methods and drugs for parasitic diseases will be launched and the progress of some projects will be assessed. Among them, the details of the installation of solar panels at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri in Pemba will be finalized: the works are expected to start soon, with a local firm (of Tanzania), which also ensures training of a local worker for maintenance works and a visit every two years for verifying the proper conditions of the panels. The renovation work of the Gombani dispensary for mother and children supported by the Foundation since 2003) will also be evaluated, as well as the progress of the project for safe water in some district of Pemba and the project on strengthening surveillance of endemic diseases in Zanzibar. Finally, from September 28th to October 9th, sixth edition of the training course “Management of programmes for communicable diseases control in Subsaharan Africa” will take place, addressed at European and African healthcare professionals, annually organized by the Ivo de Carneri Foundation with the participation of local and international experts.