22nd October, 2009
Members of the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community met in Arusha, Tanzania, on September14-19, 2009 to discuss ‘Improving Access to Quality Health Care to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals’. AMREF presented a discussion paper on strengthening leadership and management for effective results.
About ECSA-HC
The ECSA Health Community (ECSA–HC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation established in 1974 by the Convention of the Commonwealth Regional Health Community for East, Central and Southern Africa as a permanent mechanism for promoting cooperation in health under the direct control of member states. The mandate of ECSA is to foster and encourage regional cooperation in health and to strengthen capacity to address the health needs of its member states so as to attain the highest standard of health for the people of the region.
Membership of ECSA Health Community currently includes Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The ECSA Health Community has, in the territories of the member states, legal recognition by member states and is accorded status similar to that granted by the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.
