What are the best ways of improving health care in Africa, in general, and in Uganda, in particular? How can malaria be fought effectively? Furthermore, what is the best way to address brain drain, one of the major issues identified by health specialists? We asked H.E. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya, Vice President of Uganda.

John Martin, Adviser, Office of the Director General, WHO, Switzerland, opened the session stating that the purpose was to deliberate on what the world could do to improve the health care of its inhabitants. Despite progress in technology and treatments, why is the impact not substantial? He defined "global health" as encompassing all people on the planet, over and above individual nations. Health care centres cannot do the job alone - to face the challenge of gross social injustice requires a gross political response.