<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dlegge@phmovement.org">dlegge@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">WHO’s <a href="http://www.who.int/immunization/global_vaccine_action_plan/en/index.html" target="_blank">Global Vaccine Action Plan</a> will be reviewed at the Jan 2014 meeting of WHO’s Executive Board and again in May at the World Health Assembly. </span><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-AU">
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The WHO Secretariat has now posted a report on progress in vaccination (<a href="http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB134/B134_13-en.pdf" target="_blank">EB134/13</a>). In line with resolution <a href="http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA65/A65_R17-en.pdf" target="_blank">WHA65.17</a>, it provides a summary report on the progress made towards the achievement of the global immunization targets adopted in WHO’s <a href="http://www.who.int/immunization/global_vaccine_action_plan/en/index.html" target="_blank">Global Vaccine Action Plan</a> and approved by the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly and including the recommendations of the <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/immunization/sage/sage_wg_decade_vaccines/en/index.html" target="_blank">Strategic Advisory Group of Experts</a> on immunization, which met in November 2013.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PHM’s WHO Watch project will be at the EB and the WHA and we are presently preparing comments to be shared with delegates before and during the meetings. We would be most grateful for your advice. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PHM is keen to hear from PHM activists and friends who are working in the vaccine field and view it from the PHM perspective. We are keen to hear your assessment of the WHO document and suggestions about how it might be improved.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If you are involved in lobbying your country’s delegates about these issues we would be keen to hear your line of argument.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please respond to: <a href="mailto:hs-watch@phmovement.org" target="_blank">hs-watch@phmovement.org</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Warmest greetings<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">WHO Watch <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div><br></div>