PHM-Exch> World Health Assembly - will WHO open the floodgates to business influence?

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Patti Rundall <prundall at babymilkaction.org>


*Mixed Group:  67th World Health Assembly - will WHO open the floodgates to
business influence?*

Dear Friends

I have posted several links related to this week's World Health Assembly on
my Blog:  CLICK HERE <http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/300>  or see
the links below

We are especially concerned about WHO’s* Draft over-arching Framework of
engagement with non-State actors.
<http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA67/A67_6-en.pdf> *and hope very
much that it will not be approved this week. The proposal refers many times
to 'Conflicts of Interest' and 'undue influence’ conveying the impression
that these issues are adequately addressed. They are not and we believe
 there are many serious flaws.  *We will be making* a s*tatement which
briefly summarises our concerns and under the new rules these will be
posted on the WHO website
<https://apps.who.int/ngostatements/content/sixty-seventh-world-health-assembly-a671-0>
alongside
other NGO statements: * Statement WHA Reform A67_6 with reference
Final<http://dev.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Statement-WHA-Reform-A67-Final.pdf>

You may also be interested to see the correspondence in the British Medical
Journal with an excellent letter by Judith Richter: CLICK
HERE<http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5012?tab=responses>


Time to turn the tide: WHO’s engagement with non-State actors & the
politics of stakeholder-governance and conflicts of
interest<http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5012/rr/697686>

*We will  be making a statement about Maternal Infant and Young Child
Nutrition*:  IBFAN Statement WHA 67
MIYCNFINAL<http://dev.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IBFAN-Statement-WHA-67-MIYCNFINAL.pdf>

*At this Assembly BFAN is launching several documents at the Assembly:*

 the* World Breastfeeding Costing Initiative* on Wednesday 21st May. CLICK
HERE <http://ibfan.org/world-health-assembly-side-event> for more details.
If you are in Geneva you are all welcome.

We launched IBFAN’s Breaking the Rules 2014 on Friday 16th.  CLICK
here<http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/384>
for more details  and
HERE<http://www.dairyreporter.com/Regulation-Safety/Infant-formula-marketing-practices-behind-breastfeeding-decline-IBFAN>
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