Luanda — A round table on the role of the social communication (media) sector in the promotion of public health happens this Thursday at the Journalists Training Centre (Cefojor), in Luanda.

An initiative of the National Radio of Angola (RNA) is part of a its 10-year old radio programme dubbed "O medico em sua casa (the physician at home)", aired on Mondays during the "Boa noite Angola" programme of the channel A of this broadcasting company.

The meeting shall be opened by Social Communication minister, Manuel Rabelais, in the presence of his Health counterpart, Ruben Sicato, and of RNA's director, Eduardo Magalhães.

The activity is to be divided into three panels, namely "public health versus strategies to fight diseases", "media practice in discussing public health issues" and "arterial hypertension and sexual incapacity: two illnesses-two current public health problems", among others.

The experiences of RNA, of the Public Television of Angola (TPA) and of the Luanda Commercial Antenna (LAC) in tackling public health issues shall also be presented.

Staff of the Ministries of Social Communication and of Health will attend the meeting, which mainly aims at promoting a debate on the role of the mass media in divulging public health policies and in treating diseases that affect the population through information.