The need to achieve health millennium development
goals (MDGs) calls for countries’ commitments and investments,
and innovative research. To this end both the 2004 WHO Ministerial
Summit on Health Research in Mexico and the 58th World Health Assembly
endorsed a plan of action for health research. At an informal session,
Ministers of Health during the 55th Regional Committee for Africa
meeting in Maputo, Mozambique a High Level Ministerial (HLM) meeting
on Health Research in Developing Countries, to be held back to back
to the Joint Coordinating Board (JCB) meeting of WHO/TDR in Accra
from 15th -17th June 2006 had been scheduled.
The Accra meeting has been preceded by another HLM meeting on Health
Research at Abuja, Nigeria in March 2006 to develop an African perspective
on health research for achieving sustainable health MDGs in Africa.
The outcomes of the Abuja meeting will then be presented at the
Accra Meeting.
The Accra Meeting……
The high level meeting of Ministers from Developing countries in
Africa, Asia, Middle East, South America) on health research will
convene in Accra, Ghana from 15 to 17 June 2006. The outcomes of
the Abuja meeting will be presented to this meeting as Africa’s
position on health research
• The framework for partnership in the conduct
and utilization of research to enhance control of diseases in developing
countries is to be finalized at the Accra meeting and will feed
into the 29th JCB of TDR and the TDR Strategy and Vision for 2008
– 2015.
• The outcomes of the Accra meeting will
be shared with the wider constituency at 56th WHO Regional Committee
for Africa to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 28 August to
1 September 2006
The deliberations from the Accra meeting shall
form a basis for an African perspective on health research to be
presented at the WHO Ministerial Summit on Health Research to be
held in Africa in 2008
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