The health Minister met with U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Center for control and prevention o

29 may 2019 the Ministry of health hosted a meeting of Minister of Kosmosbek Cholponbaev with the U.S. Ambassador in the Kyrgyz Republic Mr. Donald Lu, and Robert Redfield, Director of the Center for control and prevention (CDC) of the United States.During the meeting the sides discussed the cooperation and projects in the areas of health, being implemented between the Ministry of health and CDC to implement projects on harm reduction among injecting drug users, prevention of flu a project on blood safety (RCC) has been successfully completed, and the programme on HIV/AIDS. Also at the meeting were discussed the possibilities of cooperation in the field of public health, etc."the Main purpose of CDC is to provide information to improve safety in healthcare. Currently, the powers of the CDC has expanded considerably, encompassing, in addition to epidemically significant infections, chronic diseases, disability, and occupational diseases, health problems associated with environmental pollution. Our Agency is ready to support your initiatives in the field of public health and to assist in field surveillance, in the issues of the problem of antibiotic resistance (antibiotic resistance), strengthen the capacity of professionals working in the laboratory service, capacity building of the centre "AIDS", said Robert Redfield, Director of the CDC."We know that the CDC is working in Kyrgyzstan for many years. Over the years a lot of work in training our epidemiologists in the area of reducing HIV/AIDS in the development of clinical protocols for the prevention of influenza and others At the Agency have very extensive experience in many areas and your potential is not fully used. Kyrgyzstan carries out much work in the area of health, three state programs in the field of health, we have already completed, in 2019, we have adopted a new program until 2030. The main and primary objective of the Program in the first years is the prevention of diseases, strengthening of primary health care, We are ready to expand our joint activities in the field of public health to enhance prevention work and surveillance. We are ready to cooperate and learn from all the good experiences and best practices, to adapt to our environment," said Kosmosbek of Cholponbaev during the meeting.

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