Cuba to Host Regional Summit on Ebola

The meeting will define joint contribution to this health challenge and to prevent the dissemination of the disease in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Heads of state and government and other representatives of the countries that make up the regional integration bloc Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas-Treaty of Commerce for the Peoples (ALBA-TCP), will gather in Havana on October 20 to address a joint contribution to the prevention and fight against Ebola, an epidemic currently hitting Western and Central Africa.

An announcement posted on the webpage of the Cuban Foreign Ministry explains that in accordance with the United Nations General Secretary’s appeal to join the international efforts to prevent and fight Ebola, the Havana meeting will define joint contribution to this important health challenge and to prevent the dissemination of the disease in the Latin America and Caribbean region.