The
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OPEC Fund for International
Development (OFID) have agreed to assist Vietnam in cancer control through the
IAEA's Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT).
OFID Director-General J. Al Herbish forwarded
US$450,000 to IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano to implement this project.
Initiated in 2004, PACT aims to help low and
middle income countries deal with the increasing cancer crisis. Together with
its partners, the IAEA is committed to strengthening the control of cancer
across the globe.
The IAEA and OFID have successfully
implemented PACT projects in Ghana, Zambia, Uruguay, Albania, Nicaragua and
Tanzania. Over the past three years, the OFID has provided non-refundable aid
of $800,000 and loans of $15 million for the implementation of these projects.
IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano stressed
that the anti-cancer struggle had become one of the organisation's top
priorities as the non-infectious disease causes the most deaths in the world.
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