From: <a href="mailto:remco.van.de.pas@wemos.nl">remco.van.de.pas@wemos.nl</a><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<br><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><br>Please find on the following weblog my (Remco's) report on the 61st WHO-EURO
regional committee in Baku, Azerbaijan, 12-15th of September 2011.
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<a href="http://getinvolvedinglobalhealth.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://getinvolvedinglobalhealth.blogspot.com/</a> <br>
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<span style="font-size:small"><span lang="EN-GB">"The third day of
the Regional Committee meeting had on its agenda the item most
relevant for the <a href="http://www.democratisingglobalhealth.org/" target="_blank">Democratizing
Global Health (DGH)</a> coalition to which Wemos and the
Medicus Mundi International Network belong: the <a href="http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/150415/RC61_pres_Prog_Reform.pdf" target="_blank">WHO
reform for a healthy future.</a> The DGH coalition is
following the reform intensively, as we believe that WHO needs
to remain the unique mandated global authority to coordinate
international health with the aim to reach and safeguard the
right to health for all. We have concerns that some elements of
the WHO reform might actually weaken the organisation, rather
than re-enforce its leadership". </span></span><br>
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During the regional committee there has been an extensive discussion
on the WHO Reform, but also on the European health 2020 Strategy
including action on the social determinants of health and
governance for health. <br>
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