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The Regional Consultation Meeting on the Global Oral Health Report, as the side event of the Intercountry Workshop on the Regional Noma Control Programme, was held in Abuja on 19 November 2019. Thirty participants from 13 Member States attended the meeting. The participants were from the Ministry of Health (MoH), the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office, partner agencies, WHO headquarters and the Regional Office for Africa (AFRO).

The specific objectives of the meeting were to: (1) discuss the oral health situation, challenges, and lessons learned from countries in the African Region; and (2) review and provide inputs into the draft Global Oral Health Report, including oral health country profiles; and (3) foster effective collaboration among oral health focal points in the MoH and WHO at the regional and global levels to promote oral health as part of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and universal health coverage (UHC) agendas. To achieve these objectives, the meeting agenda included: (1) an introduction of WHO headquarters and AFRO’s Oral Health Programme activities; (2) a country presentation in line with the topics of the WHO Global Oral Health Report; and (3) an introduction and discussion of the Global Oral Health Report.