The
ambassador of The Peoples’ Republic of China to The Gambia has disclosed that
China would soon launch a cooperation programmes on the prevention and control
of emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases such as schistosomiasis, HIV
and AIDS and malaria for African countries.
Ma
Jainchun made these remarks recently at the commemoration of World AIDS day
held at a hotel in Senegambia.
The
Chinese diplomat revealed that China would train more medical specialists from
Africa and continue to send medical teams that better meet Africa’s needs.
These
initiatives, he went on, are part of goals that delineate the blueprint for
China-Africa relations in the new era and opens a new direction for ‘our future
work’ on China-Africa cooperation.
“The
successful holding of the FOCAC-Beijing Summit marks another step forward in
China-Africa relations and create historic opportunities for our health
cooperation. During the summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced eight
major initiatives in collaboration with Africa. One of them is capacity
building on health care in the area of prevention and control of HIV and AIDS,
which especially focused under the health care initiative,” he explained.
Ambassador
Ma Jainchun disclosed that starting from 2019, China would work with African
countries and relevant international organisations on a three-year programmes
for adolescents, AIDS prevention and community health programmes in China and
Africa.