72nd Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa

72nd Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa

Monday, 22 August 2022 to Friday, 26 August 2022

The Seventy-second session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa will be held in hybrid format in Lomé, Togo, from 22 to 26 August 2022, under Special procedures for the conduct of the hybrid session of the Regional Committee for Africa.

IAPO will join health ministers and high level representatives at the WHO Regional Committee for Africa as a non-state actor in official relations with WHO at this meeting. 

Key technical health issues on the agenda include:

  • Regional strategy to address severe noncommunicable diseases at first-level referral health facilities
  • Strengthening the implementation of the comprehensive mental health action plan
  • Financial risk protection towards universal health coverage in the WHO African Region
  • Integrated control, elimination and eradication of tropical and vector-borne diseases
  • Regional strategy for health security and emergencies
  • Management of environmental determinants of human health in the African Region
  • Addressing oral diseases as part of noncommunicable diseases
  • Strategy on women's, children's and adolescents' health 2016–2030: implementation in the African Region

 

Forthcoming events

There are currently no published events available.