AFR/RC44/R9: Rev.1 Control Programme for Acute Respiratory infections: Achievements The Regional Committee,
Considering Resolution WHA44.7 of the World Health Assembly calling on Member States to establish national ARI control programmes which are integrated into primary health care;
Considering resolution AFR/RC41/R3 of the Regional Committee calling on Member States to prepare relevant national programmes for ARI control in order to reduce significantly mortality among infants and young children;
Reaffirming its adhesion to the Declaration and Plan of Action of the World Summit of September 1990 in favour of the "Rights of the Child", especially as regards the reduction by 33% by the year 2000 of the total annual deaths due to ARI;
Having examined the report of the Regional Director;
1. CONGRATULATES the Regional Director on his comprehensive and concise report;
2. INVITES Member States:
(i) to accelerate the preparation of their plans of operation and above all to ensure their implementation, by emphasizing early and correct case management;
(ii) to reorient the basic training of health personnel in the light of the strategies of the programme;
3. INVITES the partners of health development in Member States to give technical and financial support to national programmes;
4. URGES the Regional Director:
(i) to strengthen WHO technical support to planning, training, monitoring and evaluation of national programmes;
(ii) to continue with the organization in the countries of orientation seminars to involve all actors and partners in the field with a view to promoting the strategies of the programme;
(iii) to support every approach aimed at integrating CDD/ARI activities into the Child Survival Programme;
5. URGES the Regional Director to report to the forty-sixth session of the Regional Committee on the progress made and problems encountered in the implementation of this programme.
September 1994, 44, 12
