Paraguayan and Brazil's Fiocruz plan health care cooperation

At a meeting between Minister of Health of Paraguay, Julio Mazzoleni, and Consul General of the country, Hernando Arteta, during a visit to Brazil’s Fiocruz Foundation last week health cooperation between Paraguay and Fiocruz was discussed. The partnership between the neighboring country and the Foundation is historic and goes back to the work of the patron Oswaldo Cruz.

"Next year, Fiocruz will turn 120 years old and it is important to highlight its role as a science institution not only in Brazil, but in the region," said the Foundation's president Nísia Trindade Lima.

Cooperation is already underway between Fiocruz and Paraguay including the Network of Health Technical Schools (RETS), the Network of Health Institutes (RINS) and the Network of Human Milk Banks (rBLH). In addition to networks, the two countries also have bilateral cooperation in health, particularly with regard to surveillance of border epidemics.