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A group of Librarians and educators were participants of HINARI-AGORA-OARE-TEEAL Training-of-Trainer Workshop from September 1 to 5, where the president of AHILA, Vimbai M. Hungwe himself was a trainer. The group has proposed the president to have a talk with him about possible opportunity of initiating AHILA Chapter establishment. Following, the group has met the president at the end of the workshop and held a small meeting at the ILRI training room, Addis Ababa, where few introductions about AHILA, the benefit after establishment of the Ethio-AHILA Chapter and the kind of commitment expected of the group was communicated. Moreover, the president had a little but wonderful inspirational words about the profession, which I am sure, had the power of making each one of us to listen to our inner voice and follow it because it is what is best for us primarily and our society at large. It is also proposed to be our professional obligations which need to be defined that the Chapter will have its own bylaws to conform to the requirements of the activities waiting a head to be accomplished. Then the group collectively agreed to go for the establishment of Ethio-AHILA Chapter.
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The AHILA President attended the 2nd WONCA Africa Conference held in Rustenburg, South Africa from 25-28 October 2009 and presented a joint paper on Health Information for All in Africa by 2015. WONCA is the World Organization of Family Doctors, and the Rustenburg conference focused on Family Medicine in the Africa context. This platform which saw family doctors converge from all corners of Africa was an opportune time to talk about Health Information for All in Africa by 2015 campaign and drum-up support from this critical stakeholder. 