(La déclaration de Luanda a été adoptée. Concernant l¹AMA il est dit dans
le communiqué final (disponible en anglais seulement, voir ci-dessous) : «
Ils (les ministres de la santé) ont aussi souligné le besoin urgent
d'établir l'Agence de Médicaments Africaine (AMA) pour soutenir
l'industrie pharmaceutique du Continent, améliorer l'accès des populations
aux médicaments de qualité et des dispositifs médicaux et pour soutenir
l¹arrêt du circuit et de l'utilisation de médicaments de qualité
inférieure.
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African Health Ministers Reaffirm their Commitment to make the Continent
Healthy. Luanda Declaration adopted
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African Health ministers have pledged to work together to take concrete
actions to improve the health of people in the continent. At the end of a
two-day meeting held in Luanda, the Angolan capital, the Ministers
expressed concern about the numerous challenges facing public health
services which continue to hinder Africa´s sustainable socio-economic
development.
They agreed to involve every sector (private, public, civil society,
partners etc.) to collectively end preventable deaths of mothers and
children, prevent the common risks related with non-communicable diseases
and work towards universal health coverage to ensure that everyone has
access to quality health care.
Speaking after the closing session, the Dr Luis Sambo, WHO Regional
Director for Africa, thanked the Ministers for the quality of the
discussion and their commitment to improve people´s health in Africa. He
underscored the importance of partnership and express the hope that the
commitments will bring us much closer to our goal of improving health
outcomes.
³The continent´s health challenges call for technical excellence,
intersectoral collaboration and political leadership. I wish to take this
opportunity to appeal to you to continue providing leadership and advocate
for more resources to the health sector to strengthen health systems.
Africa´s health challenges require strong and robust health
infrastructure, to sustain the gains and move forward².
The African Union Commissioner for Social Affairs, Dr Mustapha
Kaloloreiterated his call for stronger collaboration and stressed that:
³The technical capacity of WHO and the convening leverage of the AUC forms
a formidable force in our efforts to make Africa a healthy continent².
In the Luanda Declaration issued at the end of the two-day historic
meeting, the delegates acknowledged that universal health coverage can
improve people´s health and is critical to Africa´s socio-economic
development. They noted that it is the way forward for African countries
given the prevailing health problems facing the continent.
The Continent´s health leaders agreed that despite the commendable efforts
of African countries to improve maternal and child health, many of them
continue to die during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-delivery period.
This situation is made worse by poverty and armed conflicts. They
committed themselves to address this scourge by putting in place an
integrated package of essential actions and services and advocate for
adequate resources to address the social, economic and environmental
determinants of health.
On strengthening the continent¹s ability to timely detect epidemic prone
diseases, the Ministers agreed to establish the African Centre for Disease
Control and Prevention to avert the high death and sickness associated
with severe public health events.
They also underscored the urgent need to establish the African Medicines
Agency (AMA) to support the Continent´s pharmaceutical industry, improve
people¹s access to quality medicines and medical products, and help
prevent the circulation and consumption of inferior-quality medicines.
The meeting also drew attention to the rising tide of noncommunicable
diseases and pledged to implement a combination of simple, cost effective
individual actions and concerted multisectoral national to reduce the
major risk factors associated with these diseases.
The Ministers requested the African Union Commission and World Health
Organization together with all relevant stakeholders, to assist countries
to implement and monitor these commitments.
The 1st Ministers of Health meeting, jointly organized by the African
Union Commission, the World Health Organization and the Government of
Angola was attended by over 300 participants including, Health Minsters,
Experts, observers and representatives of international and civil-society
organizations and the mass media.
The delegates agreed to hold the second joint meeting of African Ministers
of Health in April 2016 in Tunisia.