Iraq is consistent with WHO's "Avoid Zika"

The Iraqi Ministry of Health, on Wednesday, the agreement with the World Health Organization on a joint plan of cooperation extended to two years in the field of health security, and confirmed and developed new mechanisms "to avoid the" Access "Zika" disease to Iraq, and with the World Health Organization pointed to the availability of $ 85 million within the organization plan for the relief of displaced people during the current year 2016, it confirmed that there is a program to assess the damage to the health facility to the liberated areas. 
the Minister of Health Adila Mahmud during a joint press conference with the regional Director of the World Health Organization in the Middle East held at the Rashid Hotel in central Baghdad, and attended (range Press) "the ministry discussed with the World Health Organization to determine the priorities needed by the Ministry of Health to work with the World Health Organization for this year and next in light of the financial situation of the country and the presence of large numbers of displaced people, as well as the support that Iraq needs of wHO . " 
she added Hammoud, that" it was a discussion Communicable Diseases and is transitional and maternal and child health, vaccines and health system in Iraq in general and joint action between the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, "noting that" the organization has provided substantial support to the Ministry of Health in the past years. " 
and on the risks Log disease (Zika) to Iraq, confirmed the Minister of Health, that "the injuries infected by HIV Zika need a specific carrier and the carrier is not present in Iraq," pointing out that "there are mechanisms put in order not to entry of the disease into Iraq in cooperation with the World Health Organization." 
in turn, the regional Director of the World Health Organization in the Middle East Aladdin Alwan said during the conference that "the organization has reached an agreement with the Iraqi Ministry of Health on the priorities of cooperation this year and next year, 2017, in the field of health security and control of communicable diseases and how to strengthen national capacities in the implementation of IHR national in order to prevent the arrival of the next diseases from abroad. " 
said Alwan that" meet the humanitarian needs of millions of displaced people need a lot of funding billions and wHO is making every effort in order to respond to health needs urgent, "explaining that" what is currently available part small estimated 85 million dollars. " 
the virus Zika is an emerging virus belongs to a family of viruses mini and transmitted by mosquito bites, such as Aedes aegypti was first discovered in Uganda in 1947 in monkeys rhesus by monitoring network jungle yellow fever, and then discovered later in humans in 1952 in Uganda and Tanzania has recorded outbreaks of the virus in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific.