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Saturday, April 14, 2007


REPORT OF FIRST PAN AFRICAN CONSULTATION ON ALCOHOL POLICY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE REGION
African Journal of Drug & Alcohol Studies, 5(2), 2006


The World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Consultation on the “Public health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol in the African Region” was held at WHO/AFRO, in Brazzaville, Congo, from 10-12 May 2006. The meeting was convened as a follow-up to the adoption of Resolution WHA58.26 on Public Halth Problems Caused by Harmful Alcohol Use at the fifty-eighth World Health Assembly in May 2005 (WHO, 2005) which gave the WHO the mandate to make a number of specific requests of Member States and the WHO Director- General to intensify efforts to reduce the burden of alcohol-related problems nationally, regionally and globally.

The primary goals of the consultation were to assess the situation related to alcohol production and consumption and its harmful consequences, and to develop a programme to guide the work on alcohol in the African region over the next five years.

The meeting was attended by representatives from 13 sub-Saharan countries, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the WHO Secretariat. Participants were representatives of health ministries, academia, medical and allied professions, non-governmental organizations and civil society.

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