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DATE: FRIDAY, June 8, 1990                   TAG: 9006080272
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

HEALTH PACT TARGETS U.S., SOVIET CHILDREN

A group of U.S. health-care companies have joined Soviet officials to create a program that will share technology and research to improve care for children in both countries.

Officials of Children's Health System Inc., based in Norfolk, Va., said Thursday the agreement with the Soviet Ministry of Health would help meet that country's needs for medical supplies, drugs, technology and advanced training.

The agreement was signed last month in Moscow, where two Eastern Virginia Medical School pediatricians who represented Children's Health System toured Moscow's leading pediatric hospitals.

The exchange program, called the US-USSR Children's Health Center, will begin in September and will be funded with donations from corporations and foundations. - Associated Press 


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