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VIENTIANE, March 7 (KPL) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has enhanced commitment to assisting the Lao PDR in preventing infectious diseases.
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Coordination Office (NEIDCO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a USAID-funded contractor Academy for Educational Development (AED) to help strengthen the infectious diseases prevention and control programmes in Laos.
The agreement increases the USAID support for the Lao government to build national capacity and expand its work in the prevention and control of deadly diseases including avian influenza, malaria and dengue fever as well as other newly-emerging infectious diseases. The agreement was signed on March 3 in Vientiane by the AED’s Country Coordinator Cecile Lantican and the NEIDCO Director Bounlai Phommasack in the witness of the US Embassy in Laos Deputy Chief of Mission Peter Haymond and USAID’s Vientiane-based Health Programme Manager John Rogosuch.
The agreement is to extend the cooperation between the NEIDCO and AED for two years through March 2013.
Started in 2005, the extended programme will address a wider range of emerging pandemic threats.
Under the agreement, the AED will address the prevention and response to current and emerging infectious diseases, targeting populations most at risk of infection across the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
The AED project extension also supports the government’s new five-year plan-Emerging Infectious and Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response-for 2011-2015, according to Dr. Bounlai. (KPL)
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USAID assists Laos in preventing infectious diseases
(KPL) The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has enhanced commitment to assisting the Lao PDR in preventing infectious diseases.
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Coordination Office (NEIDCO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a USAID-funded contractor Academy for Educational Development (AED) to help strengthen the infectious diseases prevention and control programmes in Laos.
The agreement increases the USAID support for the Lao government to build national capacity and expand its work in the prevention and control of deadly diseases including avian influenza, malaria and dengue fever as well as other newly-emerging infectious diseases.
The agreement was signed on March 3 in Vientiane by the AED’s Country Coordinator Cecile Lantican and the NEIDCO Director Bounlai Phommasack in the witness of the US Embassy in Laos Deputy Chief of Mission Peter Haymond and USAID’s Vientiane-based Health Programme Manager John Rogosuch.
The agreement is to extend the cooperation between the NEIDCO and AED for two years through March 2013.
Started in 2005, the extended programme will address a wider range of emerging pandemic threats.
Under the agreement, the AED will address the prevention and response to current and emerging infectious diseases, targeting populations most at risk of infection across the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
The AED project extension also supports the government’s new five-year plan-Emerging Infectious and Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response-for 2011-2015, according to Dr. Bounlai.
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