title: The Italian Army Medical Corps in the United Nations "peace-keeping" operations: Somalia and Mozambique, December 1992-December 1994.
abstract: The Italian Army took part in the United Nations peace keeping operations in Somalia from December 1992 to March 1994 and in Mozambique from April 1993 to December 1994. These two missions involving a total of 16,358 men were very different technically, logistically, and epidemiologically. In Somalia the main pathology observed was traveler's diarrhea which affected 55% of the personnel. In Mozambique the main problem was malaria. A combination of chloroquine and proguanil was poorly effective but replacement with mefloquine gave good results. These two missions which were the first undertaken by the Italian Army outside the Mediterranean basin since the Second World War allowed testing of the readiness of materials, equipment, and personnel. Other missions in Lebanon, Turkey, Kurdistan, and Albania greatly benefited from the information obtained in these two initial operations.
authors.affiliation: Départment de Médecine Préventive, Service de Santé des Armées, Rome, Italie.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Calì
mesh_terms: D003967:Diarrhea / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000208:ethnology; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008889:Military Personnel; D009017:Morbidity; D009073:Mozambique; D012998:Somalia; D014480:United Nations