March 22, 2019
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Review day for the Afribiota research program on child malnutrition in the Central African Republic and Madagascar
The multidisciplinary Afribiota research programme, designed to better understand chronic child malnutrition, is coming to an end after four years of work in partnership with the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar and the Institut Pasteur de Bangui.
After a day of scientific feedback to the IPB, on March 1, 2019, the official closing ceremony of the Afribiota project took place in Bangui in the presence of local project stakeholders, institutions involved in health, and also the Mayor of the city of Bangui, M. Emile Gros Raymond Nakombo, the Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Pierre Somse, and the Minister of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation Ms. Ginette Amara. The presentation of the Afribiota project was also held on 6 and 7 March 2019 at the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar. On this occasion, national and international scientists, clinicians as well as representatives of public health organizations or those working in the field of nutrition, reflected on ways to prepare the follow-up to Afribiota, a program aimed at converting the Afribiota research into health interventions.
