Thursday, December 23, 2010

The 12th and 13th International Malaria Courses Come to a Close in TUMS

The 12th and 13th International Malaria Courses Come to a Close in TUMS
Date: 1/2/2010

TUMSPR News: The 12th and 13th International Malaria Courses came to a close in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on December 30, 2009.


The International Malaria Course has been being offered for health experts across middle-eastern countries by Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) School of Public Health for years. This year, and during the final days of the year 2009, the school held the 12th and the 13th courses in TUMS Bandar-Abbas Malaria Research Center and School of Public Health to mark the year with another step in the right direction for helping the international community in achieving higher standards of health and provision of more efficient health services.

Dr. Al-Bashir, from the Islamic Development Bank, IDB, thanking Dr. Bagher Larijani, TUMS chancellor, said that among 56 member states, malaria is prevalent in 29 of them, mostly in pregnant women and children. On behalf of the Islamic Development Bank, he later asked for the continuation of collaborations of this type especially by TUMS and School of Public Health.

Dr. Mesdaghinia, the dean of the School of Public Health, expressing his content for the support the classes had enjoyed from IDB, said that the 12th and 13th courses had simultaneously come to a close in Bandar-Abbas, with 20 participants from five, and in Tehran, with 20 participants from seven Islamic countries.

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