Minister of Health Paulo Ivo Garrido of Mozambique
Minister Garrido described efforts to bring these diverse donors together at one table to begin to work collectively.
end of 2006, more than double the number of people who now receive them.
Paulo Ivo Garrido is worried about the shortage of doctors in his country.
Garrido said that a total of 8, 189,159 children were vaccinated against measles.
Maputo, 17 November 2005 - Mozambiqueâs Health Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido has officially presented the results of a highly successful national vaccination campaign to the public and the media.
On Friday, Health Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido said Mozambique expects to provide free antiretrovirals to some 50,000 HIV/AIDS patients by the end of 2006, more than double the number of people who now receive them.
Garrido said Mozambique will appoint provincial coordinators in each of its 11 regions to fight AIDS, TB and malaria, the nation's top killers.
Health Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido said on Monday Mozambique expected at least 6,000 health technicians to be dead from AIDS by 2010, critically hurting the government's plans to expand health and AIDS-care services and access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs.
On Monday in Maputo, Health Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido said that at least 6,000 of Mozambique's health workers are expected to die from AIDS by 2010, seriously impairing the government's plans to expand access to health care services and antiretrovirals (ARVs.