Personal Life
Pascoal Mocumbi is married to Adelina Isabel Bernardino Paindane Mocumbi and is the father of six children. He is a Presbyterian. He speaks Cicopi, Citsonga, Portuguese, French, and English, and his hobbies are reading and jogging.
He has a special interest in the World Health Organization and AIDS. He was Foreign Minister from 1987 to 1994, when he became Prime Minister. He left office in February 2004 in a government reshuffle. Dr Mocumbi is representative of the Medicines for Malaria venture and high representative of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership. He is a strong supporter of the South African Malaria Initiative launched in Pretoria, South Africa, by South African minister of science and technology Mosibudi Mangena. The initiative emphasizes the need for wide-ranging partnerships to launch an attack on poverty and ill-health in order to staunch the spread of disease. The South African Malaria Initiative was initiated in 2005 by the African Centre for Gene Technologies, a joint venture between the Universities of Pretoria and Witwatersrand as well as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Africa's single biggest research organisation.
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