PHM-Exch> PHM and DGH Comment on the November Decisions of the Executive Board of WHO regarding WHO Reform

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: David Legge <D.Legge at latrobe.edu.au>


People’s Health Movement (PHM) and Democratising Global Health  (DGH)
Comment on the Decisions of the Special Session of the Executive Board of
the WHO in November
2011<http://www.ghwatch.org/sites/www.ghwatch.org/files/DGH&PHMCommentEBSS-Decisions_2011-1205.pdf>
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WHO is in crisis. It is a crisis of funding, of governance and of
management. These crises contribute to and derive from a further crisis: a
crisis of legitimacy, a crisis of trust.  Meanwhile the world faces a
global health crisis; with widening economic inequalities matched by a
widening health gap. The recovery of WHO and a return to its constitutional
mandate are critically necessary if the global health crisis is to be
addressed.  A thorough analysis of the nature and origins of WHO’s crises
is urgently needed as a condition for successful reform.****

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WHO Reform has been the subject of intense discussion and debate since
early 2010.  Following decisions taken at the May 2011 meeting of the
Executive Board (EB) of the WHO, a special session of the EB was held from
November 1-3, 2011. The agenda of the Special Session of the Executive
Board (EBSS) <http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EBSS/EBSS_2_1-en.pdf> was
structured around the chapters of the Director-General’s report ‘Reforms
for a Healthy Future’<http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EBSS/EBSS2_2-en.pdf>
(of
October 15) with three agenda items corresponding to the three chapters of
her paper: programs and priority setting, governance and management. This
comment on the Decisions of the
EBSS<http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EBSS/EBSS2_DIV2-en.pdf>
has
been developed through the People’s Health Movement (PHM) and the wider
Democratising Global Health (DGH) constituency and reflects the concerns of
the public interest civil society organisations listed below.  ****

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More<http://www.ghwatch.org/sites/www.ghwatch.org/files/DGH&PHMCommentEBSS-Decisions_2011-1205.pdf>
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