Brazil and Tanzania sign technical cooperation agreement in sickle cell disease
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02/12/2024 04h09
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03/12/2024 07h13
- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
A technical cooperation agreement between Brazil and Tanzania called “Improving the Quality and Life Expectancy of People Living with Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania” was signed on November 25 in Dar es Salaam at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS). The four-year project, with a total budget of USD 874,000, seeks to strengthen public policies aimed at caring for people living with sickle cell disease in Tanzania. The institutions involved are the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and MUHAS.
The project will address issues of special interest in the treatment of sickle cell disease, such as training human resources in neonatal screening, drawing up protocols for monitoring the disease (including a flow for preventing strokes in children) and diagnosing hemoglobinopathies. The project will also acquire equipment for blood processing.
During the ceremony, the Brazilian ambassador to Tanzania, Gustavo Martins Nogueira, expressed his satisfaction at the start of a health project, given that bilateral cooperation in recent years has focused on agriculture, especially cotton. He said that a project on maternal and neonatal health should also be signed in Zanzibar in the coming months. Ambassador Gustavo Nogueira alluded to the characteristics of Brazilian South-South cooperation, aimed at the horizontal exchange of knowledge and experiences, in order to contribute to building institutional capacities.
The acting vice-chancellor of MUHAS, Prof. Emmanuel Balandy, thanked Brazil for its collaboration and expressed his confidence that the project would make important contributions to the work of MUHAS and the Tanzanian government in the area of sickle cell disease.