自20世纪80年代起，西非国家经济共同体开始在医疗卫生领域建立起区域合作协调机制，并在应对疟疾、埃博拉等传染性疾病和完善相关人员培训体系等方面取得了诸多成果。然而，基于西非地区经济社会的发展特点，西共体尚需借助于国际合作来深化区域卫生合作，以提高人民医疗健康水平。我国与西共体各国卫生合作历史悠久，在新冠肺炎疫情的背景下正进一步加强与西非卫生组织等多边机构的合作，需注重长期规划，突出行动实效，发挥好医疗卫生合作在中非合作共赢、民心相通中的作用。
Since the 1980s，the Economic Community of West African States has established a regional cooperation and coordination mechanism in medical and health cooperation，and has achieved many results in responding to infectious diseases such as malaria and Ebola and improving professional training systems. However，because of the characteristics of the economic and social development of West Africa，ECOWAS still needs international cooperation to deepen regional health cooperation and improve people’s medical health. China has a long history of health cooperation with West African countries. Under the background of the coronavirus pandemic，we are further strengthening cooperation with multilateral institutions such as the West African Health Organization in order to give full play to the role of medical and health cooperation in the win-win cooperation between China and Africa.
