PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #43: WHO Executive Board sets agenda for 2023

[Health PD]

This fortnight   The World Health Organization’s Executive Board is holding
its 152nd meeting in Geneva from January 30 to February 7. The Board’s
decisions will set most of the agenda to be addressed by WHO during the
year, and include health emergencies, progress reports towards Universal
Health Coverage, and the state of rehabilitation services, among other
things. Despite a cramped agenda, health activists have warned that key
problems are being left unaddressed by the Executive Board. The

Bulletin #43: WHO Executive Board sets agenda for 2023
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/9b8b2cde?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
By People's Health Dispatch – 4 Feb 2023 – View online →
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This fortnight

The World Health Organization’s Executive Board
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/500abb41?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
is holding its 152nd meeting in Geneva from January 30 to February 7. The
Board’s decisions will set most of the agenda to be addressed by WHO during
the year, and include health emergencies, progress reports towards
Universal Health Coverage, and the state of rehabilitation services, among
other things.

Despite a cramped agenda, health activists have warned that key problems
are being left unaddressed
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/5ef9f887?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
by the Executive Board. These include structural hurdles in the way of
achieving Health for All, including the increasing influence of the
corporate sector on matters concerning global health. While this affects
all of WHO’s fields of work, one of the most hit is nutrition
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/fece1207?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>.
Tackling malnutrition and hunger has been at the top of the organization’s
agenda for decades, but effective action is still missing.

The delegates in Geneva will continue the ongoing discussion on the
financing of the WHO, including a new proposal for a replenishment mechanism
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2effe6cd?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>.
Andrew Harmer and Gargeya Telakapalli explain
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/3ed83d73?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>what
this could mean in practice, and why it should be approached carefully.
More on this subject can be found in our *Data speaks *section.

The debates inside the WHO are influenced by the political paths that its
members choose to pursue at national level. The same paths can have
practical implications for people’s health, as illustrated by the United
States’ blockade of Cuba. We bring an in-depth report on how the blockade
is affecting access to health care in both countries, in English
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/cf72ddf1?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>and
Spanish
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/3a444cd6?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
.

In the third episode of the Global Health Watch podcast, activists from
Sama - Resource Group for Women and Health, talk about the interlinkages
between gender and health
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/7046e6ef?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
and the impact of COVID-19 on women. The fourth episode brings insights
from activists from Medact on the topic of peace and health
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/7b8584cf?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
.
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In focus: 152nd session of WHO's Executive Board

*WHO Executive Board to discuss outbreaks of diseases old and new,
financing and universal coverage
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/1b68dc30?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

The 152nd session of WHO’s Executive Board is being held from January 30 to
February 7. On the agenda are crucial issues such as progress towards
Universal Health Coverage, equitable access to diagnostics and
therapeutics, and nutrition

*Food for thought: The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition at the WHO
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/5fb5c73a?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

The WHO Executive Board is evaluating progress on the Decade of Action on
Nutrition 2016-2025 as the world struggles with rising levels of hunger and
malnutrition

*A replenishment mechanism for WHO?
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/761c659d?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

As the World Health Organization’s Executive Board gets ready to hold its
152nd meeting, the budget and financing of the United Nations health agency
remain at the top of the agenda
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*Video: Should WHO’s Executive Board be discussing a more ambitious agenda?
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/1c2e6c88?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

The World Health Organization’s Executive Board's agenda fails to
incorporate global health governance discussions. Nicoletta Dentico and
Lauren Paremoer clarify what’s missing at the EB table

<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/965661dc?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>

*Video: Will the WHO get better financial support?
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a11a698f?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

As the World Health Organization's Executive Board discusses its budget and
ways of raising funds,  Andrew Harmer, Senior Lecturer in Global Health
Policy, Queen Mary University, and Gargeya Telakapalli of People’s Health
Movement discuss how the organization is funded now, what its constraints
are, and what the future might bring

<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/339c3cbe?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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Featured articles

*The US blockade of Cuba hurts medical patients in both countries
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/2d8bcc6f?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

By lifting sanctions against Cuba, people in the US could have access to
life-saving treatments being developed in Cuba for diseases which ravage
working-class communities each year
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Español

*El bloqueo estadounidense a Cuba perjudica a pacientes médicos de ambos
países
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/75a69327?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

El bloqueo a Cuba limita su capacidad para compartir sus avances
científicos y tecnológicos con el resto del mundo
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Global Health Watch podcast

*Gender justice
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/c7bdb9bc?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

In this podcast episode, Sarojini Nadimpally, Neelanjana Das, Aakriti
 Pasricha and Adsa Fatima analyze the multiple and intersectional nature of
gender discrimination and oppressions, showing how Covid-19 has
disproportionately and negatively impacted women in their roles as
healthcare, social and domestic workers

*Peace and health
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/50a8abd3?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Featuring Roman Gnagi and Catia Confortini from Medact, this podcast
episode illustrates the concept of positive peace and its relation with the
social determinants of health and health promotion, to then analyze the
different approaches to peacebuilding and the role that health activists
and health workers can play
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Data speaks

*WHO base funding 2020-2021*
Source: WHO Budget portal
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<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/3090ea95?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/307cf1a2?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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The halting of Immunisation campaigns during the height of COVID has
triggered a range of different outbreaks around the globe.
The New Humanitarian•Catherine Davison
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/695487ca?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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‘Abandonment’ During COVID-19 - Health Policy Watch
The new Brazilian government under President Lula da Silva intends to
propose that the World Health Organization (WHO) addresses the health of
indigenous
Health Policy Watch•Kerry Cullinan
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/45fb422f?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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People's Health Movement*
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