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It is necessary to focus on the identification, diagnosis and treatment of TB disease in children and young people, to achieve the plan set by the continuous development goal to prevent TB disease by 2030. 

Dr. Lia Tadesse

The Honorable Dr. Lia Tadese, the Minister of Health of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, stated this at the 72nd World Health Organization forum on the African continent, which is being held in Lome, Togo. She said that since the TB disease roadmap for children and young adults approved in Ethiopia in 2015 started to be implemented, the prevention and treatment of children and young adults from TB disease has improved.

Free health check-up and medical voluntary service under the motto "Goodness for our health" has been strengthened in the regions and city administrations.

voluntary service

The people-oriented voluntary action campaign, which was started to provide free health check-up and treatment services to more than one hundred thousand citizens in one week, has been continued in all regions and city administrations.

The Ethiopian delegation is participating in the Seventy-second session of the African World Health Organization

Dr. Dereje Duguma

The Ethiopian delegation is participating in the seventy-second session World Health Organization #RC72AFRO on the African continent, which started today in Lome, Togo.  

                     
This the seventy-second African continental organization is one of the six continental governing bodies of the World Health Organization and it is a committee representing the countries of the African region with 47 member countries. At the forum, the names of sub-committees for global health in Africa will be named.