The head of the visiting Italian delegation made a stopover at the Chantal Biya Research Centre in Yaounde yesterday.
The visiting Vice-Minister of Economic Development of Italy, Adolfo Urso, who heads an important delegation of his country’s economic experts on an economic prospecting mission in Cameroon, could not have ended his two-day mission without making a stopover in a structure that stands out as a good example of the bond that exists between the two countries. Adolfo Urso, alongside some members of his delegation, the Italian Ambassador to Cameroon and Cameroon’s Ambassador to Italy went to the Melen neighbourhood in Yaounde yesterday morning to discover the Chantal Biya International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB in the French Language).Adolfo Urso was pleased to move around CIRCB, the structure which he described as “an example of an important partnership between Cameroon and Italy”. The Italian Vice-Minister of Economic Development told the press how he felt proud and happy since Italy was able to contribute in making CIRCB, an excellence centre. He said the putting in place of CIRCB was one of the best ways to use resources which were freed from Cameroon as debts to Italy. “Our bilateral cooperation towards the Chantal Biya International Reference Centre will continue particularly in the training of personnel to fight against HIV”, he stated
During Adolfo Urso’s 30 minutes at CIRCB, the centre’s Director of Scientific Research, Professor Vittorio Colizzi and the President of the Management Committee of CIRCB, Jean Stéphane Biatcha, took their august guest to the various laboratories in the research centre, the research library and the dispensary which receive patients from all the nooks and crannies of the country. The Italian Vice-Minister and his delegation also made a brief stop at one of the conference halls of CIRCB where participants from the Central African Regions are brainstorming on good clinical and laboratory practices for clinical investigators. The seminar, which began on July 19, will end on Friday, July 23. The Minister of Public Health, André Mama Fouda and other members of government were at the premises of CIRCB to receive Adolfo Urso.
