CHAPTER TWENTY ONE HEALTH, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES ARTICLE 117 Scope of Co-operation In order to promote the achievement of the objectives of the Community as set out in Article 5 of this Treaty, the Partner States undertake to co-operate in health, cultural and sports and social welfare activities within the Community. ARTICLE 118 Health With respect to co-operation in health activities, the Partner States undertake to: (a) (b) take joint action towards the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases and to control pandemics and epidemics of communicable and vector-borne diseases such as HIV-AIDS, cholera, malaria, hepatitis and yellow fever that might endanger the health and welfare of the residents of the Partner States, and to co-operate in facilitating mass immunization and other public health community campaigns; promote the management of health delivery systems and better planning mechanisms to enhance efficiency of health care services within the Partner States; (c) develop a common drug policy which would include establishing quality control capacities and good procurement practices; (d) harmonise drug registration procedures so as to achieve good control of pharmaceutical standards without impeding or obstructing the movement of pharmaceutical products within the Community; (e) harmonise national health policies and regulations and promote the exchange of information on health issues in order to achieve quality health within the Community; 92