HEALTH MINISTER MEETS LEBANESE, SYRIAN COUNTERPARTS

Beirut, April 27 (Saba) - Minister of Public Health and Population
Abdul Karim Rasa'a has met with his Lebanese counterpart Jawad
Khalifa and discussed health cooperation between the two countries
and ways of boosting it.

The meeting also discussed areas of cooperation between Lebanon and
the Global Vaccine Coalition as Yemen represents the Eastern
Mediterranean and North Africa countries at the Board of Directors
of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and
cooperation between the country and the Global Alliance for
Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva.

On the other hand, Rasa'a discussed with his Syrian counterpart Radi
Said Yemen-Syria health cooperation.

They also discussed areas of cooperation between Syria and the
Global Fund and the Yemeni support for Syria during the tenth
meeting of the fund, cooperation between Syria and the GAVI and the
desire of the Syrian Health Ministry for having meningococcal and
diarrhea vaccine.

Moreover, the two ministers discussed the upcoming visits of Syrian
medic teams to conduct surgeries and establish the Syrian medication
week in Yemen.

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