WHO Africa Regional Committee Meeting Closes in Mozambican Capital
Posted on: Saturday, 27 August 2005, 09:01 CDT
WHO Africa Regional Committee meeting closes in Mozambican capital
MAPUTO, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The 55th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa closed in Maputo on Friday, urging member states to take substantial efforts to achieve the Health Millennium Development Goals.
The session called on member states of the Committee to reemphasize and reinvigorate HIV prevention efforts with a sense of urgency, ensuring the setting of appropriate targets, in synergy with treatment efforts; develop appropriate strategies and plans for accelerates HIV prevention; and ensure effective leadership and coordination of HIV prevention efforts and accelerate the implementation of multi-sectoral responses.
The Committee declared in the session tuberculosis an emergency in Africa, urging member states to develop and implement with immediate effect emergency strategies and plans to control the worsening tuberculosis epidemic, and to rapidly improve tuberculosis case detection and treatment success rates.
The session approved a resolution on Cardiovascular Diseases ( CVDs) in the African region, which urges member states to develop and strengthen national policies, strategies and programs targeting the prevalent CVDs affecting their populations; to promote prevention strategies based on knowledge of the risk factors aimed at reducing the occurrence of cases and consequently premature mortality and disability due to CVDs, and to improve the capacity of health personnel in the prevention, control and management of CVDs.
The Committee also examined the regional strategy for the control of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) during the next decade, and approved the proposed strategy which aims at strengthening the capacity of member states to eliminate the disease as a public health problem by 2015.
For achieving Health Millennium Development Goals, the Regional Committee urges member states to develop and implement national " road maps" for the achievement of the MDGs in the context of existing nationally-led development planning frameworks, and to strength their health systems in order to rapidly scale up implementation of priorities, health interventions aimed at reducing child mortality, maternal mortality and morbidity and mortality due to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other priority diseases.
The Regional Committee also examined the WHO Program Budget for the biennium 2006 - 2007, and approved the guiding principles for Program Budget implementation in the African region.
The session decided that the 56th session of the Committee will be held in Ethiopia in 2006.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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