Africa-Press – Angola. The Health Minister of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) approved, this Friday, in Luanda, the Action Plan 2022-2024, which includes the activities to be carried out during this period.
According to the statement produced at the end of the meeting, among the activities, there is the review of the Strategic Plan for Health Cooperation (PECS), a key instrument to guide the CPLP’s cooperation in health and to foster the community’s relationship with different development partners. , within the scope of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Health Ministers of the Lusophone Community also intend to renew the Memorandum of Understanding with the World Health Organization (WHO). To this end, they should guide the CPLP executive secretary to resume dialogue with the WHO, with a view to renewing this instrument until the end.
Also within the scope of the Action Plan of the Ministers of Health, a CPLP Conference on Primary Health Care should be held in Luanda by the end of the current year.
In the period between 2022 and 2024, a project should also be presented to promote the sharing of lessons and practices between the CPLP member states in the relevant components of the strategic axes of Primary Health Care.
A Plan to Address Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases will also be developed in the CPLP, under the coordination of the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
In the final declaration of the meeting in Luanda, the ministers of Health of the CPLP reaffirm their commitment to the defense and promotion of human rights, as pillars of human dignity and the well-being of the populations of the Member States. It underlines that this is the central objective of all efforts at intra-community cooperation in the health sector.
They reiterate the willingness of Member States to continue to share, on a regular and timely basis, through the networks already established under the PECS-CPLP and others that prove to be relevant, different practices to respond to the challenges resulting from the management processes of Covid -19 and post-pandemic recovery.
They advocate the strengthening of coordination among Member States in the surveillance and response to emergencies in Public Health, including epidemics and disasters. They appeal to regional and international development partners to, in the short and medium term, increase the development of cooperation activities with the CPLP for the implementation of PECS in the community.
Commitment to energize actions
The Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, yesterday reiterated Angola’s commitment, as acting president of the CPLP, to continue to promote the actions foreseen in the action plan, aiming at the well-being of the people.
Sílvia Lutucuta, who was speaking at the end of the conference, called for a better use of the potential that each country has for sharing knowledge, technology transfer to improve the provision of health care and services with quality and humanization at all levels. of attention.
In this context, the minister defended that we continue to make better use of new technologies that increasingly show their importance in improving the management of health services, in learning, as well as “to be closer and closer”.
He expressed appreciation for the work of the CPLP executive secretary, for the contribution of representatives in the technical group and for the technical assistance provided by the Oswaldo Cruz foundation, the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical da Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Instituto Ricardo Jorge.
Sílvia Lutucuta defended that efforts should be redoubled to fully assume the commitments identified, as well as continue to see the mission as an investment for the sustainable development of CPLP countries.
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