The group at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital's Tropical Medicine Unit has 16 years' experience in providing clinical care to travellers and immigrants, with sub-Saharan Africans having preference under an agreement entered into between the Hospital and NGOs. We have a number of projects under way, targeted at promoting health and preventing tropical and transmissible infectious diseases. We act as a reference centre for imported disease, which has enabled us to tabulate some 6,000 officially recorded and dated cases in a secure computerised database, from which numerous scientific studies on imported diseases have been drawn. The Unit, which forms part of a number of advisory committees in the field of public health, has drawn up health care guidelines for both the immigrant population and travellers. It holds conferences and courses on imported disease and health advice for travellers, and has a long tradition of training resident physicians in different specialisations (internal medicine, family medicine, microbiology and parasitology, paediatrics).
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