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Panama has seen some recent advances in confronting tropical disease, even as malaria flares out of control in spots. The advances are mostly in research and dependent on international cooperation, but they also result from public-awareness campaigning and active public participation.
In June, the governments of Panama and the US signed a broad technical- and scientific-cooperation agreement between the Gorgas Memorial Institute and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
The agreement was a highlight of the IV Congreso Cientifico Cien Anos por el Desarrollo de la Salud en Panama (100 Years for the Development of Health in Panama). The agreement will enable further work on determination of malarial resistance and of the serotypes of HIV now circulating in Panama, and comparison of these with those in the rest of Central America and the Caribbean. The US$50,000 project will begin in late 2004 and last about three years.
Panama, with 5,000 cases of AIDS, is the second-most-affected country in Central America, after Honduras (see NotiCen, 2003-05-01).
The Congreso Cientifico ran concurrently with the Primer Congreso Internacional de Salud Corporativa de la Autoridad del Canal de Panama. Both events commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in the country of William Crawford Gorgas, MD, who worked...
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