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The International Training Center for Human Virology has opened on the basis of the Medical Institute of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN). The creation of the center was announced at the recent Russia-Africa forum. It is assumed that specialists will be trained in it to work with HIV-infected people in African countries, the website of the prefecture of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow reports.
Retraining doctors in the field of HIV medicine will become one of the main areas of the center's activities. Training will be conducted according to the latest programs, compiled on the basis of the most modern knowledge and techniques of the advanced countries of the world.
It was also announced that over time, the center could become a platform for transporting drugs to Africa. For the continent, the problem of HIV is one of the most acute, as there is a shortage of qualified medical personnel.
Russian and foreign specialists will be trained in the new center. According to experts, the quality of training specialists in working with HIV-infected people in Moscow is not inferior to Western European practice.
It is emphasized that the center is the next step towards the implementation of the so-called Moscow model of the fight against HIV / AIDS, the Moscow Department of Health and the capital's medical institutions are participating in its development.
Russkiy Mir
