AFR/RC34/R9: 1983
The Regional Committee,
Having examined the succinct report of the Regional Director for 1983;
Noting that its presentation complies with the guidelines given by the Regional Committee at its twenty-fifth session;
Considering that the main emphasis has been placed on the major events of 1983 in the implementation of the Regional Programme:
(i) organization of health systems based on primary health care;
(ii) health manpower;
(iii) public information and education for health;
(iv) nutrition;
(v) maternal and child health, including family planning;
(vi) essential drugs and vaccines;
(vii) drug and vaccine quality, safety and efficacy, and (viii) disease control;
1. APPROVES the report of the Regional Director;
2. INVITES the Member States to:
(i) promote and/or develop PHC planning, implementation and monitoring activities;
(ii) follow up effort to train health sciences specialists and teachers using existing mechanisms;
(iii) reorient health manpower training programmes and integrate PHC into the training curricula of the various institutions;
(iv) follow up efforts to train journalists for the health and social fields to ensure that rational use is made of the mass media in the service of health;
(v) review current methods of epidemiological surveillance, including the exchange of information so as to readapt and reactivate them in line with needs;
3. REQUESTS the Regional Director to:
(i) make the necessary arrangements to respond as quickly as possible, to requests from the countries regarding epidemiological surveillance;
(ii) recall for the benefit of the Member States the recognized degree of efficacy of cholera immunization and the need to abide by decisions taken collectively on the requirements covering the presentation of vaccination certificates at frontiers.
September 1984, 34, 19
