AFRO-NETS> Developing Sustainable African Health Care Delivery Systems for the Millennium

[Elizabeth Pienaar <elizabeth.pienaar@mrc.ac.za>]

Developing Sustainable African Health Care Delivery Systems for the Millennium
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A Multinational Symposium

1 - 2 October 2002
Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in an in-
ternational symposium convened by the Medical Research Council of 
South Africa and the International Medical Exchange, in collaboration 
with the World Health Organization, the Georgetown University Medical 
Center and the Africa Telehealth Educational Project. The event will 
be held at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West near Cape Town.

This symposium will address the development of Health Initiatives for 
the millennium, with a specific focus on the role and impact of in-
formation and communication technologies (ICT) in Africa and with a 
view to the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). It 
will bring together health policy and decision makers such as, Perma-
nent Secretaries, Medical Directors, Ministry of Health representa-
tives and other government officials; health care professionals - 
physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals; and ICT experts, 
industry representatives, educators, entrepreneurs, and other profes-
sionals, from Africa, Canada, and the U.SA. The Symposium will exam-
ine the role of ICT in, and its impact on, the attainment of the six 
health objectives of NEPAD by African countries, with particular at-
tention on the development of human resources for health, and will 
lead to the development of a strategic plan for leveraging advances 
ICT to assist in building effective health care systems in Africa. 
The information gathered during the symposium will provide a solid 
framework for the development of an implementation strategy useful to 
Ministers of Health in specific focus areas, such as:

* Developing the necessary support capacity for sustainable and
  effective health care delivery systems;
* Strengthening programmes for controlling communicable diseases and, 
  in general, reducing the burden of certain diseases;
* Empowering the people of Africa to act to improve their own health 
  and to achieve health literacy; and
* Promoting greater partnerships between health care providers and
  traditional practitioners (healers).

For more information, please visit our web site:
http://www.mrc.ac.za/coference/deliverysystems/ 

or contact 
Ms. Mandy Salomo
Tel: +27-21-038-0433
mailto:mandy.salomo@mrc.ac.za


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Elizabeth Pienaar
Information Scientist
South African Cochrane Centre
Medical Research Council
PO Box 19070
Tygerberg 7505 
South Africa
Tel: +27-21-938-0835
Fax: +27-21-938-0836
mobile: +27-72-2297-442
mailto:epienaar@mrc.ac.za
http://www.mrc.ac.za/cochrane/cochrane.htm

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