Santo Domingo .- The foundation headed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter launched a binational Dominican Republic and Haiti to eradicate malaria and filariasis the island. Dajabón
the largest number of malaria cases here at home and it was precisely the first site visited by Carter then moved to Haiti.
the island it shares with Haiti, is unique in the Caribbean where the disease still persists and elephantiasis, which threatens the entire region.
binational For this plan, which will last 10 years, the Carter Center will invest 194 million dollars. 63% will be allocated to Haiti, Dominican Republic 32% and 5% will be specialized mutual fund.
is estimated that in 2004 the country lost $ 200 million in tourism following a malaria outbreak.
currently 5% of the Haitian population suffers from malaria, while one percent of the Dominican Republic suffers.
HAITIAN MIGRATION
During his visit to the country, Carter met with President Leonel Fernandez at the National Palace, which said yesterday that there is no way that the Dominican Republic is able to remove the Haitian migration and gave the example of other countries like the together, they could not do on its border with Mexico.
Carter said both nations are tied to each other and therefore no way to separate them. Carter said that was why there should be a broad cooperation between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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