PHA-Exchange> MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES ON AGENDA AT UN MEETING IN GENEVA

[Claudio]

From: "Vern Weitzel" <vern.weitzel at undp.org>

MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES ON AGENDA AT UN MEETING IN GENEVA

The top United Nations health decision-making body kicks off its annual
session in Geneva today
focusing on a draft global immunization strategy as well as other
international strategies aimed at
disease control and prevention.

The meeting of the
<"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2005/wha58/en/index.html">World
Health Assembly, which oversees the work of the UN World Health Organization
(<"http://www.who.int/en/">WHO), will review the agency’s proposed budget
and consider more than a dozen draft resolutions on such issues as cancer
prevention and control, tuberculosis, malaria, pandemic influenza and health
insurance.

The Assembly will also receive updates on progress in polio eradication,
scaling up of HIV/AIDS treatment and care, and the promotion of healthy
lifestyles. This year's invited speakers are the President of the Republic
of Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Bill Gates, Co-Founder of the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.

In a related development, WHO announced plans to appoint the renowned Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra
collectively as a “Goodwill Ambassador” for the agency today. The aim is for
the renown orchestra to
employ its talent and wide reach in raising awareness of WHO's work on
important public health issues

The Assembly, comprised of the 192 WHO Member States, will continue its
session through 25 May.

Note: PHM has its own session on th right to health on May 19th.
Claudio
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