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The Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, at the 75th Annual World Health Summit, under the theme "Peace for Health & Health for Peace" said that a healthy society has a significant role to play in ensuring a secure and lasting peace, and peace is vital for health.

"There can be no health without peace," the Minister stated, highlighting how several health facilities had been destroyed and looted, many displaced and affected during the conflict in northern Ethiopia. She noted that this has hampered access to health care for a large number of people.

It is the first in-person Health Assembly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme of this year’s #WHA75 is 'Peace for Health and Health for Peace'. The assembly will make a series of strategic consultations and discussions on current and future priorities for public health issues of global importance.

A workshop on Primary Health Care Finance, under the theme "Putting people first through investing in PHC", was held focusing on the recently published Lancet Global Health Commission report. The workshop was attended by the Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, the heads of regional health bureaus, the Ministry of Health representatives, the Ministry of Finance and partner organizations.