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Health : A Regional and Global Concern

Every country is responsible for providing minimum conditions for its people to develop and for creating an environment conducive to better health : infrastructure investments and good quality health staff in adequate numbers, drinking water and sanitation, a good educational system and good governance.

However, some activities need to be coordinated at the regional level, such as the eradication of diseases that can be prevented through vaccination (e.g. poliomyelitis, measles and yellow fever) or endemic disease control (onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis) in order to ensure that the efforts deployed by one country are not cancelled out by its neighbouring country’s negligence.

The production of generic drugs or other medical products also needs to be coordinated at the regional level.

Finally, the fight against global pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria calls for international programmes, particularly for the establishment of trade agreements assuring access to reasonably priced medicines.

Hence, health is both a regional and global concern.