<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Patti Rundall</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prundall@babymilkaction.org">prundall@babymilkaction.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
<b style="font-size:15px">Mixed Group:  67th World Health Assembly - will WHO open the floodgates to business influence?</b><br><div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div>
<div>Dear Friends <div><br></div><div>I have posted several links related to this week's World Health Assembly on my Blog:  <a href="http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/300" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>  or see the links below</div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-size:10px"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We are especially concerned about WHO’s</span><b style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> <i style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a title="Draft" href="http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA67/A67_6-en.pdf" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(140,196,211);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Draft over-arching Framework of engagement with non-State actors.</a></i> </b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px">and hope very much that it will not be approved this week. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:24px">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.  </span></font></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:24px"><b>We will be making</b> a s</span></font></span><b style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">tatement which briefly summarises our concerns and under the new rules these will be posted on the <a href="https://apps.who.int/ngostatements/content/sixty-seventh-world-health-assembly-a671-0" target="_blank">WHO website</a> alongside other NGO statements: </b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px"> </span><a href="http://dev.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Statement-WHA-Reform-A67-Final.pdf" style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px" target="_blank">Statement WHA Reform A67_6 with reference Final</a></div>
<div style="font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px">You may also be interested to see the correspondence in the British Medical Journal with an excellent letter by Judith Richter: <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5012?tab=responses" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5012/rr/697686" style="font-family:sans-serif,helvetica,arial;font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.5em;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,105,144)" target="_blank">Time to turn the tide: WHO’s engagement with non-State actors & the politics of stakeholder-governance and conflicts of interest</a></p>
</div><div><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:14px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>We will  be making a statement about Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition</b>:  <a href="http://dev.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IBFAN-Statement-WHA-67-MIYCNFINAL.pdf" target="_blank">IBFAN Statement WHA 67 MIYCNFINAL</a></p>
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<b>At this Assembly BFAN is launching several documents at the Assembly:</b></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:14px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
 the<b> World Breastfeeding Costing Initiative</b> on Wednesday 21st May. <a href="http://ibfan.org/world-health-assembly-side-event" title="WBCi" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(140,196,211);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for more details. If you are in Geneva you are all welcome.</p>
<p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:24px;font-size:14px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We launched IBFAN’s Breaking the Rules 2014 on Friday 16th.  <a href="http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/384" target="_blank">CLICK here</a>  for more details  and <a href="http://www.dairyreporter.com/Regulation-Safety/Infant-formula-marketing-practices-behind-breastfeeding-decline-IBFAN" style="font-size:10px" target="_blank">HERE</a>  </p>
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