Africa-Press – Angola. The doctor Peliganga Luís Baião reinforced the range of highly qualified Angolan specialists, after defending the thesis entitled “Hepatitis B Profile and other diseases in donors and pregnant women in the province of Bié, Angola”.
Inserted in the Postgraduate Program in Tropical Medicine at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, based in Rio de Janeiro, for the thesis, which gave her the academic degree of Doctor of Medicine, the doctor obtained the maximum grade, corresponding to 20 values.
The thesis defense took place on August 31, in the Emmanuel Dias auditorium of the prestigious Brazilian institution, which has teaching and research as one of its main areas of action.
Peliganga Luís Baião defended his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Lia Laura Ximenez de Souza Rodrigues. The areas of concentration of the thesis are “infectious parasitic diseases in the line of research of infections and diseases produced by viruses”, according to the minutes read at the end of the session, by Professor José Henrique da Silva Pilotto, assigned to the Fiocruz Foundation.
The examining board was made up of Gerson Fernando Mendes Pereira, from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and Maria Fernanda Afonso Dias Monteiro, holders of the same academic title. Maria Fernanda Afonso Dias Monteiro, full professor and dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Agostinho Neto University, traveled to Brazil especially for this purpose.
From Angola, but remotely, via video conference, Franco Cazembe Mufinda, Secretary of State for Health, as well as Carmem Beatriz Wagner Giacoia Gripp, from Fiocruz, both Professors Doctors, completed the group of examiners. “After questioning the candidate and considering that he has demonstrated ability to deal with the chosen topic and systematize the presentation of data, the examining board pronounced itself in favor of the approval of the academic doctoral thesis”, said José Henrique da Silva Pilotto, when reading the minutes of defense.
After the defense of the thesis, whose session was transmitted by videoconference, the doctor was quite satisfied and with the feeling of accomplishment, insofar as his work “will contribute to the adoption of measures for safe blood, not only for hepatitis, but also for HIV and syphilis”.
The doctor explained, on the other hand, that the work “has recommendations to prevent mother-to-child transmission of Hepatitis B, as well as vaccination, also of Hepatitis B, in newborn children”.
The researched articles were published in two articles in the Swiss scientific journal Pathogens.
Aged 50, Peliganga Luís Baião has a degree in Medicine from Universidade Agostinho Neto and a specialist in Infectious Diseases from the National Council for Postgraduate Specialization in Medical Sciences, assigned to the Ministry of Health. He obtained a Master’s degree from Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A collaborator at the Ministry of Health, where he is head of the Department of Disease Control at the National Directorate of Public Health, he is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade Agostinho Neto, where he coordinates the discipline of Infectious Diseases.
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