Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Institutional activities in 2004
Health
Programme for the fight against tuberculosis in Guinea
Associazione Medici Senza Frontiere of Rome
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The Associazione Medici Senza Frontiere - Onlus
(Médecin Sans Frontières, MSF) performs its international
activities providing medical and health assistance to
people in danger, victims of epidemics, wars or natural
disasters.
The € 250,000 grant awarded in 2004 by the Compagnia
aimed at supporting the continuation of the project to fight
tuberculosis (TBC) in Guinea financed in 2002 and 2003.
In Guinea tuberculosis is currently one of the major health
problems, aggravated by the emergency caused by AIDS.
MSF first aims at reducing the illness and deaths caused
by tuberculosis. In particular it is set to increase the
number of centres dedicated to the management of TBC,
allowing decentralization in the two reference regions of
Conakry and Moyenne Guinée. In 2004 the responsibility
of the National Plan for the Fight against Tuberculosis will
be handed over to local authorities: this will involve
monitoring activity by the MSF personnel in order to ease
the transfer of medical treatments, the medicines and
laboratories management, and the spread of awareness
raising campaign in the population.