Cameroon to host regional WHO meeting |
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The Regional Committee of WHO, comprised of all Member States of WHO in Africa, will meet in Yaounde, Cameroon. On the agenda is a range of priority issues for consideration among which the steady, but challenging, progress to achieve USI and eliminate IDD. A major feature of the Meeting will be to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the landmark Alma Ata Conference on Primary Health Care using progress on IDD elimination as an example of PHC at work. ICCIDD Regional Coordinator Dr. Daniel Lantum will attend and work with the delegates to improve reporting on progress as called for by the World Health Assembly Resolution requiring mandatory reporting on iodine nutrition nationally.
allAfrica.com reports:
The fifty-eighth session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa is scheduled to take place from 1 to 5 September in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
This year’s meeting of the Regional Committee, WHO’s Governing Body in the African Region, will take place in the context of change and reform, initiated by Dr Luis Sambo, since he was elected to the post of Regional Director four years ago.
At the meeting, Dr Sambo will present his biennial report for 2006-2007, highlighting successes achieved and challenges faced in the pursuit of the Organization’s mandate of helping to improve the health situation in the 46 Member States of the Region.
High on the agenda of this year’s meeting are proposed actions to improve the health of women and curb the harmful alcohol use in the Region; a strategy for cancer prevention and control; a progress report on accelerating HIV prevention and polio eradication, and proposals for eliminating iodine deficiency disorder.
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