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Conference on Malaria and Tuberculosis
Over the past 10 years, the incidence of tuberculosis in Cape Verde has remained stationary, hovering around 60 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In general, mortality from tuberculosis in the same period has declined steadily in all municipalities.
Tuberculosis affects about one third of the world’s population and it remains an important public health problem both as a cause of morbidity and mortality, despite the fact that, as a disease, it is preventable and curable. It is estimated that about 8 million people worldwide develop the disease every year and it accounts for two million deaths each year. Of the six hundred million inhabitants of the African region, two hundred million are infected, even if the majority of cases are healthy carriers. According to WHO estimates, in 1999, about 20% of tuberculosis cases worldwide occurred in the African Region.
Cape Verde has already implemented two plans to fight the disease and these conferences aim to spread the knowledge about the best treatments and practices for extrapulmonary tuberculosis and malaria.
On the 10th July, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation in partnership with the Agostinho Neto Hospital and the Science for Development Post-Graduate Program organised two conferences on tuberculosis and malaria. Professor Emilia Valadas and Professor Thomas Hanscheid were invited to the Conference on Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, and Professor Hanscheid spoke on "Malaria: What's New".
Raquel Moreira
Editorial Team
news@medicina.ulisboa.pt
Tuberculosis affects about one third of the world’s population and it remains an important public health problem both as a cause of morbidity and mortality, despite the fact that, as a disease, it is preventable and curable. It is estimated that about 8 million people worldwide develop the disease every year and it accounts for two million deaths each year. Of the six hundred million inhabitants of the African region, two hundred million are infected, even if the majority of cases are healthy carriers. According to WHO estimates, in 1999, about 20% of tuberculosis cases worldwide occurred in the African Region.
Cape Verde has already implemented two plans to fight the disease and these conferences aim to spread the knowledge about the best treatments and practices for extrapulmonary tuberculosis and malaria.
On the 10th July, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation in partnership with the Agostinho Neto Hospital and the Science for Development Post-Graduate Program organised two conferences on tuberculosis and malaria. Professor Emilia Valadas and Professor Thomas Hanscheid were invited to the Conference on Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, and Professor Hanscheid spoke on "Malaria: What's New".
Raquel Moreira
Editorial Team
news@medicina.ulisboa.pt