{"id":235365,"date":"2022-08-26T18:26:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/who-africa.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/africas-flagship-health-forum-wraps-up?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-08-26T18:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:26:39","slug":"africas-flagship-health-forum-wraps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/africas-flagship-health-forum-wraps-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s flagship health forum wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/e2859b55e2c1585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/e2859b55e2c1585\" alt=\"WHO Regional Office for Africa\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/e2859b55e2c1585\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=213893&amp;press_source=WHO Regional Office for Africa\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Seventy-second session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa wound up today after five days of deliberations and adoption of strategies to better respond to the region&rsquo;s health challenges and improve people&rsquo;s health and well-being.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The meeting provided a platform for collaboration, sharing ideas and resetting focus for a post COVID-19 Africa. Three resolutions were adopted during the meeting including a strategy to decentralize health services for severe noncommunicable diseases, reforming the response to public health, and a regional strategy for the management of environmental determinants of human health.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Around 30 health ministers and more than 700 participants attended the meeting &ndash; held in the Togolese capital Lom&eacute; &ndash; in-person and virtually. The Regional Committee is the WHO&rsquo;s decision-making body in the region, convening once a year to discuss and endorse regional policies, activities and financial plans to improve people&rsquo;s health and well-being.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Closing speech by Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa: <a href=\"https:\/\/afrocoms.newsweaver.com\/1rz5qc4oi8\/1cmi3yznbey1kc80pwygy4\/external?email=true&amp;a=5&amp;p=62031488&amp;t=32096743\">https:\/\/www.afro.who.int\/regional-director\/speeches-messages\/closing-72nd-session-who-regional-committee-africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of WHO Regional Office for Africa.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The Seventy-second session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa wound up today after five days of deliberations and adoption of strategies to better respond to the region&rsquo;s health challenges and improve people&rsquo;s health and well-being. The meeting provided a platform for collaboration, sharing ideas and resetting focus for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-235365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/africas-flagship-health-forum-wraps-up.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}