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Throughout the whole world, people envision a better future for themselves, for their children and their children’s children in peace, security, as well as wellness, prosperity and social justice. Along with this assurance of financial coverage, primary health care is key to the attainment by all people, of this level of health necessary to realize those aspirations. Primary health care is people oriented service built on the axiom of health of the people by the people and for the people. Primary health care promote peace, security, and wellness, and seeks to prevent injuries, violence, illness and insecurity through delivery of health care services, creating conditions that help people to become and stay healthy, as well as extending the reach of health care providers into communities making health care accessible, though community and public participation, use of appropriate technology, inter sectoral collaboration for health promotion. Primary health care through their professionals, such as health educators, carry out advocacy, sensitization with policy makers, and community mobilization, to create awareness and to liaise with relevant stakeholders to help in poverty reduction especially among the vulnerable groups – women and children. They also advocate that government policies on sanitation, water supply, urban and rural development, women empowerment, gender education, employment, family planning, policies on pregnant women and children welfare, immunization and general health services should be implemented through provision of health education. Primary health care workers ensure that massive awareness creation has reached the vulnerable groups for care of self and for utilization of all health care interventions made available to them in their communities by the government. This paper seeks to examine the role of primary health care in the promotion of peace, security and wellness.