World Health Organization international assistance activities in Africa

Abstract

The Fourteenth World Health Assembly in February 1961 requested the Director- General to make all possible efforts to provide such assistance to Member States having newly attained independence and to co-operate with them in the training of local medical personnel technically qualified to undertake the responsibility of combating infection and parasitic diseases and of improving national health services". Special efforts have been made by WHO to provide advice and guidance to Member Governments in Africa, particularly to the newly independent countries, on the nature and importance of WHO assistance in relation to their needs. It is fully recognized that assistance to Governments at their request for promoting balanced and integrated health services is closely related to other social and economic services, and depends on local and international factors.