Africa: Nobel laureates seek renewed commitment to public health

Nobel peace laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Professor Wangari Maathai have appealed to Africa’s Heads of State meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to renew their commitment to improving public health by among other things, allocating 15 per cent of their national budgets to health in line with the commitment made at the special Heads of State summit in Abuja in 2002.