I found this on All Africa.com. Snippet: And although MRC in Gambia will be changing over the coming years, it is definitely not leaving or closing down.
Indeed it is moving from a focus on disease based programmes to a focus on themes (Vaccines, disease elimination and child survival)
And within these themes the main health priorities for Gambia remain well represented - and in some cases strengthened.
There is for example a long-standing partnership between the MRC and the Government of Gambia in the area of vaccines. Over 20 years this has resulted in The Gambia having one of the best Extended Programme of Immunization schedules in Africa.
Disease elimination will continue to be a central theme of MRC Gambia activities in the next five years. And in recent years deaths in children under 5 years of age have declined significantly here, and The Gambia is making good progress towards meeting Millennium Development Goal No. 4 (reduction of child mortality by two thirds by 2015).
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Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 22:29:02
after all it is about politics
in a loose sot of way
