The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo was invited to the Vatican on Thursday 18 November 2010 to address delegates who attended the XXV International Conference.
The event was organised by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers under the theme “Toward an Equitable and Human Health Care in the Light of the Encyclical Caritas in Veritate”
Dr Sambo spoke on “Access to Primary Health Care: Thirty-Two Years after Alma Ata what advances have been achieved in the Continent of Africa? His speech was well received and will be published in the Vatican Quarterly Newsletter - Dolentium Hominum.