Leonardo Simão, along with members of his EDCTP team, visited CISA to promote the opportunities made available by EDCTP to Angola.

CISA – the Health Research Centre of Angola has published an article in the PLOS ONE international scientific journal on the genetic characteristics of the rotavirus in children aged under five. 

CISA ran a training program on intestinal parasites for clinical analysis students at the EFTSB – the Health Technician Training School of Bengo.

A team of ten researchers from CNIC – the National Centre for Scientific Research visited CISA. 

The CISA researcher Chissengo Tchonhi was interviewed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 

The 18-month evaluation of the “Community Education Intervention in Nutrition, WASH/Malaria and Anemia” project has now begun. 

Francis Kassola, Henrique Barros, Henrique Silveira, Sanjeev Krishna and Tânia Lourenço sit on the CISA scientific council that held its first ever meeting at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

The director of the Angolan Institute of Public Health, Joana Afonso, and the director of CISA, Moisés Francisco, were present at the 8th EDCTP Forum held in Lusaka, Zambia.

Two technical experts from Camões – Institute of Cooperation and Language, one of the CISA projects promoters ever since 2007, visited the CISA installations.

CISA participated in the “The 21st century hospital – hospital management: governance, alternative models and healthcare system impacts” workshop organised by FESA.