Having noted that nearly half the Member States have signed the Charter for the Health Development of the African Region by the year 2000

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AFR/RC30/R9:

The Regional Committee,

Considering resolution AFR/RC29/R16;

Having noted that nearly half the Member States have signed the Charter for the Health Development of the African Region by the year 2000;

Noting that most countries of the Region have formulated national development strategies or have sent relevant information to the Regional Office;

Endorsing the replies made by the African Advisory Committee for Health Development (AACHD) to the fundamental questions as reflected in the text,

1. APPROVES the regional strategy for attaining the social target of health for all by the year 2000;¹

2. CONGRATULATES Member States on having formulated realistic national strategies, and the AACHD and the Regional Director on their work to produce a synthesis;

3. INVITES Member States to:

(i) sign, if they have not yet done so, the Charter for the Health Development of the African Region by the year 2000;

(ii) formulate detailed national plans of action with emphasis on primary health care (PHC), managerial mechanisms, and the reorientation of health systems to support PHC;

(iii) put their national strategies into effect with the support of WHO, OAU, organizations and institutions within the United Nations system, and other external funding sources;

(iv) take appropriate measures to have the target of health for all by the year 2000 placed on the agenda at a forthcoming OAU summit meeting;

4. REQUESTS the Regional Director to:

(i) transmit document AFR/RC30/3 to the Director-General as the regional contribution to the global strategy;

(ii) set up mechanism for evaluation, every two years, of the progress of the work and every six years, of the impact of the work, in accordance with the evaluation methods developed by WHO and approved by the governing bodies;

(iii) put the regional strategy into effect;

(iv) communicate that strategy to the Executive Secretaries-General of the OAU and the ECA;

1 Document AFR/RC30/3.

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(v) invite the Executive Secretary-General of the OAU to include health for all by the year 2000 as an agenda item at a forthcoming OAU summit meeting, referring to the Charter and to regional health development strategy;

(vi) perform, in collaboration with the Director-General, his constitutional role in international health cooperation by collaborating with Member States in the search for extra-budgetary sources of finance to implement regional and national strategies.

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