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 21 Mar. 2022 



 

 

 

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## CALL TO ACTION

Putting water and sanitation back at the heart of strategies for the elimination of cholera and the control of other diarrhoeal diseases



 

 

 



SIGNATORIES :

- Ibrahim Assane Mayaki PhD, former Prime Minister of Niger, President of the Global Alliance Against Cholera (GAAC), Executive Secretary of New Partnership for Africa's Development
- Pierre Lokadi Otete Opetha PhD, Secretary General for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Democratic Republic of Cong
- Amadou Bocoum, Ambassador of Senegal
- Prof. Jean-Marie Kayembe Ntumba, Dean of the University of Kinshasa, DRC
- Dr. Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland College Park, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
- Prof. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Director of the National Institute for Biomedical Research, Ministry of Health, DRC
- Prof. Didier Bompangue Nkoko, Head of the Department of Ecology and Control of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, DRC
- Thierry Vandevelde PhD, Delegate General of the Veolia Foundation
- Amadou Sall PhD, Director of the Pasteur Institute of Dakar, Senegal

[Call to action to end cholera in Africa (text)](https://www.choleraalliance.org/sites/g/files/dvc3616/files/document/2022/03/Call%20to%20action%20to%20end%20cholera%20in%20Africa%20V15%20EN.docx.docx.pdf)

 



 

 

 



 

 

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