<div dir="ltr"> From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au">D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"></span><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-AU">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">After a productive ‘watch’ at the WHO Executive Board in January, PHM’s WHO Watch team has launched its website for the World Health Assembly in May this
year. You are warmly invited to visit the </span><a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/who-watch/wha67" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">WHA67 index page</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> and explore the item pages which hang off it in order
to preview the discussion at the Assembly and consider the PHM commentary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">PHM’s country circles are urged to scan the issues appearing on the WHO agenda and see whether there are issues being dealt here which are local priorities
as well. In such cases, there may be some benefit to be had from making the links in various ways between the global and the local. For example, some of the issues on the World Health Assembly agenda in May this year include: infant nutrition, tuberculosis,
hepatitis, antimicrobial resistance, medicines regulation, violence against women and many more. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">PHM activists are invited to comment on the commentary and to seek the comment of more specialised networks, both at the global level and locally, e.g., in
relation to nutrition issues and food sovereignty; likewise for medicines, violence against women, etc. In some cases, PHM activists may choose to explore with ministers of health, their position on some of these issues.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please respond to
<a href="mailto:WHO-Watch_Coordination@phmovement.org" target="_blank">WHO-Watch_Coordination@phmovement.org</a>
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<h1 style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About WHO Watch</span><u></u><u></u></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/who-watch" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">WHO Watch</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> is a program of engagement with the World
Health Organisation and global health governance (GHG) more generally. The broad goal of the Initiative is to improve the global environment for health development by changing the information flows and power relations which frame global health decision-making
and implementation. This will require developing countries finding a stronger voice in global decision making, supported by a broadly based popular mobilisation which rejects the prevailing neoliberal paradigm.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">WHO is a central agent in global health governance and worth engaging with for this reason alone, but building our ‘watching’ capacity in relation
to WHO will provide a firm basis for extending the project to the wider field of GHG. For these reasons WHO Watch is seen as a necessary first stage in the implementation of the DGHG Initiative. The main activities which comprise WHO Watch include:
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">recruiting and training ‘watchers’;</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">maintaining a high quality website dealing in an integrated way with WHO governing body meetings, agenda items, and policy issues and providing a portal to other relevant resources;
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">monitoring, participating in and lobbying around meetings of WHO’s governing bodies (World Health Assembly, Executive Board, regional committees);</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">collaborating with developing country governments and delegations in policy analysis around global health issues under consideration by WHO;</span><u></u><u></u></li></div><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">strengthening the links between the local and thematic campaigns around health justice and activism around the structures and dynamics of global health governance; engaging in national level consultation with government officials
regarding global health issues through delegations, deputations, national workshops and stoking a national policy dialogue around GHG issues.
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