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Angola: Aids Epidemics Has Neighbouring Countries Influence - Study
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
29 January 2008
Posted to the web 29 January 2008
Luanda
Angolan deputy minister of Health, José Van-Dunem, said Tuesday in Luanda that studies indicate that Aids epidemics has an inward trend and a certain influence from neighbouring countries with border provinces operating as entry routes for the disease.
The deputy minister said so during the opening of the follow-up workshop on applied methodologies of 2007, going on in Luanda.
He said on the occasion betters information gathering methods will help the health authorities to direct the Government efforts, analyse the efficacy of intervention, correct and intensify the work that has been carried out.
According to the official, although no significant rise has been noted in infections, a work to deepen and more detailed information should be continued.
The deputy minister said the provinces of Cunene (south), Kuando Kubango (southeast), Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul (east) have higher rates of prevalence of Hiv/Aids than in the other provinces of the country, whose general average is of 2,7 percent.
José Van-dunem stated that data available show that there has been some improvement in the Cunene province and a light aggravation in Kuando Kubango, whereas a light rise in prevalence is noted in other provinces of the country.
"There has been no significant rise in the prevalence in the country, but the drop is also small", he stressed.
In his turn, the director of the National Institute of Fight Against Aids, Dulcelina Serrano, considered as very important the programme of epidemiological surveillance, as it permits to gather data on the dissemination of the pandemics in the country.
She said the results obtained with the programme of surveillance enabled the Government and its partners to outline strategies, to know the characteristics and target groups.
"The results attained enable us to know and gather data related to the state of prevalence of Hiv/Aids in the country, to outline approach strategy. It is from the programme that we came to know where we are heading for, where to do and how to do so that together we can fight", she stressed.
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She added that the epidemiological surveillance programme enables to define geographic areas for action, information on vulnerable and priority groups.
The National Institute of Fight Against Aids has as its partners Unaids, the health division of the Angolan Armed Forces, the World Health Organisation and others.
Ending Tuesday, the workshop is tackling such topics as data on enquiries in pre-natal consultations, national response to Aids epidemics in Angola, model of point of prevalence and Hiv/Aids tendency and projections on new infections and its demography and need for anti-retroviral therapies, deaths from aids and orphans in Angola.
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