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General Program of work as strategic priority for World Health Organization

Amit — Mon, 21 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000

The General Programme of Work 13 (GPW) provides a framework for the WHO’s work in the coming five years.

No fencing away for ‘private-collaborators’ : the new WHO Director General pacifies the private sector

Amit — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:24:05 +0000

Geneva, 22 May, 2018: The 71st meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA) kicked off in Geneva on Monday. The new Director General Dr Tedros immediately reassured the private sector that they would not be ‘fenced out’ of partnerships at the highest level of global health policy making. The World Health Organization (WHO) governing body will be meeting for a week to decide on the political direction of the institution. Key issues on the agenda will include the Organisation’s General Program of Work, medicines, vaccines, and non-communicable diseases.

WHA71 Watch: Policy Brief, Statements and Agenda

Amit — Mon, 21 May 2018 11:48:29 +0000

The 71st World Health Assembly is taking place in Geneva, May 21-26.

Follow WHA71 with the PHM Watch Team

Amit — Tue, 15 May 2018 07:52:26 +0000

The provisional agenda (A71/1) is pasted in below (see also the official documents page)read more

PBAC28

DavidLegge — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 06:12:53 +0000

PBAC28 (28th Meeting of the Program Budget Advisory Committee of the Executive Board)

Official documents page

Provisional agenda

PHM commentary index page

who-track.phmovement.org/pbac28

Daily Report June 1

Amit — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:27:20 +0000

June 1

Follow the WHA70 watching by PHM

Amit — Sun, 21 May 2017 22:44:50 +0000

The WHO Watch Team is watching the 70th World Health assembly of the World Health Organisation. The Watching team consists of Linda Markova, Godfrey Philimon, Lauren Paremoer, Simrin Kafle, Sulakshana Nandi, Aletha Wallace, Megan Arthur, Renee De Jong, Paul Nedermeijer, Alexandre Gajardo and Gargeya Telakapalli.

Follow the discussions at WHA70 through detailed item wise comment by PHM on each agenda item of the WHA here.

PHM Ghana Watches 66 AFRO meeting

Amit — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:00:00 +0000

On 16 and 17 August 2016, PHM-Ghana organised a Watching Workshop with the aim to develop a position paper on key issues on the 66th AFRO meeting agenda. Representatives of 14 organisations met for two days at the Guest House of the University for Development Studies in Accra, Ghana and developed a joint Position Paper covering key agenda issues. The Position Paper can be found here.

PHM Ghana Watches 66 AFRO meeting

Amit — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:00:00 +0000

Read and see all the statements by PHM at WHA69

Amit — Fri, 27 May 2016 11:51:34 +0000

11.3 Framework of engagement with non-State actors, see video

12.1 Maternal, infant and young child nutrition, see video

Can Unsustainable Trade, Ecological and Economic Policies Sustain Global Development Goals

Amit — Fri, 27 May 2016 11:08:35 +0000

The PHM, while welcoming the vision of equity promotion in the SDG 2030 goals, challenged delegates at the WHA to consider if the same polices which has promoted an ecological disaster and has engendered multiple economic collapses can promote sustainable goals.

Is WHO poised to open its governance to private commercial interests?

Amit — Thu, 26 May 2016 20:26:40 +0000

At the 69th session of the World Health Assembly, a possiblel adoption by Member States of a Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA) that does not have sufficient safeguards against undue influence from the private sector could constitute a sad turning point in history of WHO.

WHA69 May 2016

Amit — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:35:06 +0000

The 69th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization will meet in Geneva from 23 May to 28 May 2016.

SSFFC: hard to pronounce, harder to define

Amit — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:50:08 +0000

The complex terminology “Substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/ falsified/counterfeit” (SSFFC) medical products was proposed 6 years ago by the Director General as a provisional term. Disappointedly, as time has passed, the only one element that changed is the temporary use of the terminology.

Why are these terms concerning? Because they conflate the issue of the quality of medicines with asserted breaches of intellectual property rights.

PHM: Need for an ambitious Global Vaccine Action Plan

Amit — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:55:10 +0000

At the 68th World Health Assembly, Member States committed themselves to strive for a global vaccine program that is both inclusive and universal. The resolution aimed to overcome the barriers affecting vaccine access, and ensure affordability in places with low resources. In order to be more effective, the necessity of reporting on these obstacles was emphasized.