The Italian ambassador at the Training course in Pemba
Insert in Courses the day October 21, 2009
The sixth edition of the Residential Course “Management of Communicable Diseases Control Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa”, with the participation at the opening ceremony of the Italian Ambassador in Zanzibar Francesco Catania, has just come to conclusion.
The course, organized by the Ivo de Carneri Foundation under the auspices of the Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (University of Brescia) and the Italian Cooperation, was organized in Pemba (archipelago of Zanzibar, Tanzania) at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri from 28 September to 9 October 2009. This course, thanks to scholarships to cover full or partial costs, offers a training on the diseases of Sub-Saharan Africa to 20 health workers from different countries in the world. This year there were 10 Africans from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Mozambique, and 10 Europeans from France/USA, Spain, Portugal, Italy and UK.
The course has hosted international and local experts; it was officially opened by the Principal Secretary of the MoHSW Zanzibar, Dr M. Jiddawi, and this year there was the participation, as Guest of Honour, of the Italian Ambassador Dr. Francesco Catania.