The Ouagadougou Declaration on Primary Health Care and Health Systems in Africa: Achieving better Health for Africa in the New Millennium

ABSTRACT

The Ouagadougou Declaration on Primary Health Care and Health Systems in Africa focuses on nine major priority areas 1) leadership and governance for health; 2) health services delivery; 3) human resources for health; 4) health financing; 5) health information systems; 6) health technologies; 7) community ownership and participation; 8) partnerships for health development; and 9) research for health. This paper describes a framework constructed for implementing the necessary activities in each of these priority areas; and proposes recommendations for consideration by Member States in the development of their own country frameworks. The frameworkfor implementing activities related to health information and research for health which have been taken into account in the Algiers Framework are discussed separately elsewhere in this issue