Policy priorities and strategies that help every family member enjoy optimum physical, mental and social well-being across the ECSA region.
Family health is a state of positive interaction between family members which enables each member of the family to enjoy optimum physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being. Under this component ECSA-HC focuses on identification of health policy priorities and content as well as formulation of strategies to improve the following:
Under this component ECSA-HC focuses on identification of health policy priorities and formulation of strategies to control and manage infectious diseases such as TB; Malaria; HIV/AIDS, Hemorrhagic fevers; Cholera; Dengue and other infectious notifiable diseases.
The ECSA-HC merged the two components into 1 cluster called Family Health and Infectious Diseases, whose goal is to contribute to the attainment of the highest standard of reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health as well as to promote the reduction of communicable diseases in Member States.
