Angolan health minister Manassas Neto has urged the countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa, to back peace efforts in his country for the sake of the Angolan people's health. Neto was speaking in Windhoek, Namibia, at the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Africa meeting.
"We ask all the countries and organisations here to help Angola achieve peace, because without peace there is no way we can have health," Neto said. The minister said that the nation's health was "getting worse" and that "with war comes the problem of financing health, when there is a war all the finance goes to the war and not to social affairs."
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