South Sudan to host tenth regional health, scientific conference
By Denis Elamu
South Sudan is set to host the upcoming tenth East African health, scientific conference scheduled to take place on June 25 to 27 in the capital, Juba.
Sarah Cleto Rial, South Sudan’s minister of health said on Friday that the conference will bring scientific researchers and experts across the eight member states of the East African Community (EAC) to share knowledge on food security, safe water, air borne and zoonotic diseases, environmental hazards, cross border transmissions, and traffic accidents, and regulation of foods and drugs.
“This conference will bring together important delegates, key note speakers, researchers and participants to share regional scientific health research, concerns and interests,” she said at a press conference in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
Cleto disclosed that regional ministers of health, ministers of EAC Affairs, and senior dignitaries from the EAC organs, academics, health professionals, students and invited international experts and friends of the EAC will attend the conference.
The tenth East African health, scientific conference will be held under the theme “addressing health priorities and advancing the EAC region health agenda to meet global health targets”.
Cleto emphasized that this conference brings together the best researchers in health and all health related sciences, from all the EAC member states to present and discuss their health research work and new research ideas under one roof.
“This is a platform for knowledge exchange and sharing between the countries,” she said.
The EAC health, scientific conference which takes place every two years on rotational basis was approved in 2006 by the twelfth Ordinary Session of the EAC Council of Ministers.
The purpose of the conference is to strengthen regional cooperation in health in accordance with Article 118 of the treaty that established the EAC and is in line with other provisions of the EAC Common Market protocols.
From the time of its approval in 2006, nine conferences have been conducted in the different EAC countries.
