Fiocruz partners with Angolan university

Brazil’s Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and the Agostinho Neto University (UAN), in Luanda, Angola), have signed a memorandum of understanding for future partnerships in teaching and research between the institutions

Representing another step in the search for closer ties with African institutions, the partnership aims at mutual collaboration in the following areas: neglected tropical diseases, with emphasis on malaria and tuberculosis; communicable diseases; arboviruses; antimicrobial resistance (AMR); HIV; climate and health; maternal, child and reproductive health; among others. The memorandum of understanding signed between the institutions is valid for five years.

“It is part of the institutional cooperation policy to strengthen technical-scientific partnerships with countries in the southern hemisphere, especially Portuguese-speaking countries. The IOC's focus is on contributing to the training of human resources in these places. We can help them face public health problems linked, especially, to transmissible diseases”, commented he Institute's institutional cooperation coordinator, Anna Cristina Calçada Carvalho.