(Apr. 23) Italy is keen on helping hemophiliacs abroad. Italian FEDEMO, the Federation of Emophilia Associations, support and promote projects to carry out disease control plans in foreign countries, as part of the “program of scientific collaboration and humanitarian significance for the rational and ethical use of Factor VIII plasma-national “signed by the National Blood Centre (NSC) and the Fondazione IRCCS Ca ‘Granda Hospital Maggiore Policlinico of Milan. Among the countries identified to implement the project are Egypt, India and Afghanistan. Just the Afghanistan project provides for the establishment of a support network through the opening of a center for hemophilia care at the hospital in Kabul Esteqlal for which they were trained medical laboratory technician and an Afghan. In these years the project has led to important results: the opening of a social welfare clinic for diagnosis and treatment of hemophilia at the Hospital Estelqlal of Kabul, the training of a doctor and a technician in Milan, the endowment of the necessary equipment, the creation of a contact between the center in Afghanistan and the World Federation of Hemophilia, the constitution of an association of Afghan patients with hemophilia .(Red/Peg)
