ZANZIBAR TO HOST 9TH ORDINARY MEETING OF EAC SECTORAL COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF HEALTH

East African Community

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ZANZIBAR TO HOST 9^TH ORDINARY MEETING OF EAC SECTORAL COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF HEALTH: 14-17 APRIL 2014

 

East African Community Secretariat Arusha; 11 April 2014: The 9^th Ordinary Meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council of Ministers of Health is scheduled to take place 14 to 17 April 2014 at the Zanzibar Beach Resort Hotel in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

 

The meeting will be held through the Session of Senior Officials from Monday 14 to Tuesday 15 April, Session of Principal Secretary/ Permanent Secretaries on Wednesday 16 April; and the Ministerial Session on Thursday 17 April 2014. The Honourable Minister of Health of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania is expected to officiate at the official opening of the Ministerial session.

 

The meeting will be attended by delegates from the EAC Partner States’ National Ministries responsible for Health, Science and Technology and EAC Affairs as well as various National Statutory Regulatory and Services Authorities, Agencies, Boards and Councils and also National Health Research and Academic Institutions, among others.

 

The meeting will consider, among others, matters under EAC regional cooperation on health systems, research and policy among the EAC Partner States; the EAC regional cooperation and integration on the Prevention and Control of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases; the EAC regional cooperation and integration on Medicines and Food Safety; the EAC regional cooperation and integration on the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).

 

The meeting will also consider the EAC regional cooperation and integration on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH); and the convening of the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization Donor Roundtable Meeting in June 2014.

 

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For more information please contact: 

Owora Richard Othieno, Head of Department; Corporate Communications and Public Affairs;  +255 784 835021; Email: oothieno@eachq.org; oothieno@gmail.com;