The Opening Ceremony for the Tuberculosis Control Center in Aden [Archives:2003/695/Local News]

The opening ceremony for the Aden Tuberculosis Control Center (ATCC) was held today Monday, December 15,2003, and attended by Dr. Yehya Mohammed Al-No'ami, Minister of Public Health and Population, Dr. Yahya Mohammed Al-Shu'aibi, Governor of Aden, Mr. Yuichi Ishii, Ambassador of Japan to Sana'a, and representatives of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
ON July 10, 2002, the Government of Japan signed and exchanged notes with the Government of the Republic of Yemen for the execution of the “Expansion of Tuberculosis Control in the Southern Governorates” project to which Japan extended a grant in aid amounting up to $ 5,000,000 (Five Million US Dollars). With this grant, the Ministry of Public Health and Population has constructed the ATCC and procured medical equipment in order to expand tuberculosis control activities in the southern governorates. In the field of health, the Government of Japan has been supporting Yemen's endeavors to combat tuberculosis under the National Tuberculosis Control Program, by constructing TB Centers in Sana'a, Hudeidah, Taiz and now in Aden as well as dispatching many Japanese experts to Yemen and receiving innumerable Yemeni trainees in Japan through JICA over the last 20 years.
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