Lisbon – The participants in the third Congress of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) on STI and HIV/AIDS recommended on Friday in Lisbon, Portugal, the institutionalisation of the health research and development network.

According to the Lisbon charter, all participants also recommended that the health research and development network should be the privileged mechanism of political and technical concert of the community and that in action areas should be taken into account the recommendations of the CPLP’s organs.

 
It was recommended that the network should co-ordinate its works in permanent articulation with national and state co-ordinations so that the congress may be responsible for it.

The next meeting may be organised by Mozambique in 2012.

 
The first congress of CPLP on HIV/AIDS took place in Luanda, Angola, in 2006 and the second one happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2008.