On July 29th and 30th, a meeting in the framework of the Focem Project was held at the Fundación Oswaldo Cruz, Río de Janeiro, with the aim of discussing the advances and planning of the project.
Representatives of each institution taking part in the project attended: Dr. Luis Barbeito for the Instituto Pasteur of Montevideo, Uruguay; Dr. Wilson Savino, the Vice-Presidente Dr. Rodrigo Stabeli and other researchers of the Fundación Oswaldo Cruz of Brazil; Dra Norma Coluchi for the Laboratorio Central de Salud Pública del Ministerio de Salud (LCSP) and associate centers of Paraguay and Dr. Eduardo Arzt for the IBioBA-CONICET-MPSP of Argentina.