The session mainly involved presentations, panel discussion and open public discussion with ministers of
health and finance from the African continent. The
panellists included the Minister of Health of Ethiopia,
the Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone, the Regional
Director of the WHO Regional Office for Africa, the
acting Human Development Director of the World
Bank, and the Director of Partnerships at the Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
(GFATM). Two presentations were made by representatives of the Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA)
initiative (which is made up of the African Development
Bank, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,
United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund, World Health Organization and World Bank)
and the African Public Health Alliance (APHA). These
presentations were aimed at stimulating discussion.