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Delegates From Nine African Countries Discuss Health Information Systems
Nine southern African countries and donors have gathered in Namibia for the second regional leadership in Health Information Systems (HIS) meeting to discuss "how recipient countries should take ownership of these systems," New Era reports (Sasman, 10/26). Participant countries "will work together to develop country specific strategies to strengthen their national HIS and prepare a country-led action plan," writes the Southern Times. More than 100 delegates representing Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe are expected to attend from ministries of finance, health, science, information and statistics bureaus (Nashuuta, 10/22).
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