国内英语资讯:China, Africa enhance cooperation in health_时事

国内英语资讯:China, Africa enhance cooperation in health

China stands ready to work with all other countries, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to address global health challenges, and through South-South cooperation, to help build the health sector in developing countries, she said.

Enhanced China-Africa health cooperation will not only benefit the 2.4 billion Chinese and African peoples, but also help enhance the health and wellbeing of all mankind, she said.

She called for intensified efforts to improve the accessibility of Africa's health services, strengthen the public health prevention and control system and capacity-building in Africa, scale up support for the health needs of the youth and women, deepen people-to-people exchanges in health and bring more benefits to the people through China-Africa health cooperation.

More than 200 participants, among them Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director Michel Sidibe, attended the conference, where World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan sent in a video message.

Representatives of various parties spoke highly of China's achievements in the health sector as well as China's support for African countries.

They also expressed hope for enhanced cooperation with China to help Africa realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted by world leaders in 2017.

At the conference, China signed an agreement on maternal and child health care cooperation with Malawi, an agreement on hospital cooperation with the Republic of Congo, Ghana, Mauritania, Zambia, Niger and Chad, and an agreement on a free-cataract-surgery program with African countries including Sierra Leone.