almotamar.net - Board of Directors of World Fund for Fighting AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis currently held in China agreed Monday on the grant of more than $27 million for the Republic of Yemen for the next five years.

During his meeting with the regional director of the World Fund for Fighting AIFS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the deputy of the executive manager, the Yemeni Health Minister Abdulkarim RAsie stressed that the support would help combat the three diseases and enhance medical services.

The Minister also discussed with him ways of strengthening and developing relations of cooperation in health field with China, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, the European Union, East and South Africa, South-East Asia, Central Africa and representative of East Europe. The Funds grant to different countries of the world for the next five years has amounted to more than one billion dollars.