Cuba to help Angola

Posted by Bethina Abrahams Apr 8, 2007

Pedro Ross Leal, the ambassador of Cuba to Angola, has announced plans to help Angola tackle the problems of AIDS, malaria, and cholera. Currently, there are approximately 400 Cubans working in Angola in health and education. Cuba plans to increase the capacity of Anglola by sending specialists in public health who will work throughout the country and also provide teaching. In addition, Cuba is making plans to send vaccines, antiretroviral drugs, and materials to build pharmaceutical factories.

Cuba has always been different from North American countries in that instead of contributing to the brain drain of Africa, it has tried to combat it by sending Cuban-trained physicians to countries in Africa.