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Angola: Lwini Fund, National Oncology Institute Hold Solidarity Meeting


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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

17 October 2007
Posted to the web 17 October 2007

Luanda

A meeting aimed at outlining methods for mobilising supports to fight cancers happens Thursday between the National Oncology Institute and Lwini Fund, at the latter's headquarters in Luanda.

ANGOP learnt from a press release of Lwini Fund that the meeting also aims at mobilising resources from national businesspeople and foreigners for the equipping of laboratories of Pathologic Anatomy and clinical tests for the development of activities of the National Oncology Institute, the only hospital in the country for the diagnostic prevention and treatment of cancer.

With this meeting, refers the note, both institutions aim at encouraging national and international public opinion for the urgent need of changing attitudes as well as support the development of a publicity project on cancerous diseases, its consequences and methods of prevention.

Fundo Lwini will hold a campaign to raise funds to achieve its goal.

The National Oncology Institute has been developing a broad programme that includes holding of consultations to diagnose cancerous illnesses, workshops and seminars with the objective of educating the population.



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