- Facilitate dermatological education and training at all health care levels in disadvantaged communities.
- Continue to support the RDTC in Moshi, Tanzania, and develop other means of achieving this mission.
- Improve the quality of care in dermatology and venereology in resource poor countries.
- Develop a cadre of experienced dermato-venereologists and health workers willing to serve on a short or long-term basis as visiting teachers, lecturers, advisers, or practitioners of dermatology; and to provide mentorship for those wishing to develop such a role.
- Document the needs of patients with dermatological disease in such areas and the current status and future requirements for trained manpower and resources.
- Develop rational treatment protocols and procedures which can be used widely in the developing world.
- Promulgate collaborative programmes between institutions from developing and developed countries of the world, non-governmental organisations and industry.
- Encourage and carry out appropriate research designed to improve the care of patients with dermatological disease.
- Promote dermato-venereological education and communication needs in developing countries at national and international meetings.
- Contribute to other programmes whose aim is to help patients with dermatovenereological diseases in resource poor settings.
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