FIFTEEN southern African and Indian Ocean island countries on Friday adopted a health cooperation plan for disease prevention and control. The World Health Organisation said the “health cooperation framework and action plan” was agreed upon at the end of a five-day meeting in Harare of the countries’ health and interior ministers. The WHO said the plan aims to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by a wide range of diseases, including AIDS, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, polio, meningitis, measles, rabies, plague, anthrax and influenza.