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Cuba and Angola A Health and Wellness Brotherhood Project
By: Liliam Lee Hernández
Sharing a common history, Cuba and Angola continue their mutual cooperation for the welfare of their peoples.
LABIOFAM Business Group is part of a health and well-being project in that African nation through a vector control plan to reduce the incidence of malaria within the population. Malaria is endemic in the region with high mortality rates, chiefly among pregnant women and children under five.
Since November 2009, dozens of Cuban collaborators have been applying two LABIOFAM bio-larvicides, Bactivec and Griselsf, two products possessing a high degree of proven effectiveness in eliminating the larvae of mosquitoes that transmit malaria.
Cooperative activities also extend to controlling other vectors harmful to humans, including rats. For that, Biorat, a biological rodenticide also made by the Cuban institution, has significantly lowered levels of infestation in both rural and urban areas.
The successful implementation of the collaboration project, supervised by Cuban specialists in each of the treatment areas, is also due to the population's enforcement of sanitary measures, as well as
LABIOFAM Business Group is part of a health and well-being project in that African nation through a vector control plan to reduce the incidence of malaria within the population. Malaria is endemic in the region with high mortality rates, chiefly among pregnant women and children under five.
Cooperative activities also extend to controlling other vectors harmful to humans, including rats. For that, Biorat, a biological rodenticide also made by the Cuban institution, has significantly lowered levels of infestation in both rural and urban areas.
