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WHO watch: Daily reports from WHA66

The WHO wathchers prepare a report of the activities and outcome of every day of the WHA66. Click on below links for the daily reports:

Day one: Monday 20 May

WHA66: Statement on General Program of Work

Statement to the 66th session of the World Health Assembly

WHA66: Statement on WHO reform

 

Statment to the 66th session of the World Health Assembly
on agenda item 11 WHO Reform
 

WHO Watch: activities during WHA66 and EB133 - May 2013 Geneva

The forthcoming World Health Assembly (WHA), taking place from 20-28 May 2013 in Geneva, will be monitored, advocated to and reported upon  by PHM health activists under the ‘Democratising Global Health Governance Initiative: WHO Watch’.

WHO Watch is a resource for advocacy and mobilisation and an intervention in global health governance. More about WHO Watch and the Democratising GHG Initiative.

Post 2015 Development Agenda Consultation, organised by PHM, supported by WHO

 PHM has been involved in the post 2015 development agenda through

Post 2015 Development Agenda Consultation, organised by PHM, supported by WHO

In September 2012, the WHO and the UNICEF launched a call for proposals for thematic consultations on health in the post-2015 developmental agenda.

Open letter to WHO Member States on the occasion of the open-ended Member States meeting on the follow up of the CEWG report November 26-28th 2012

We would like to share with you the following open letter signed by >60 NGOs on the follow up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group (CEWG). A shortened version of this letter was delivered by HAI and KEI at the WHO's open-ended Member States meeting.

Background to Current WHO Reform Initiatives and Possible Advocacy Messages

WHO is in crisis. It is in debt and its agenda is increasingly dictated by donors rather than member states. The Director General has initiated a reform process which will come to a head in November 2011. There are powerful pressures at work which are directed to restricting WHO to a purely technical role and towards closer relationships ('partnerships') with private corporations and private foundations (in particular the Gates Foundation).

Statement on Conflicts if Interest delivered at WHA on behalf of HAI, Berne Declaration, KEI, TWN, PHM, IBFAN

Today Health Action International, represented by one of its members, Patrick Durisch, delivered the following statement at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on Agenda Item 13.5 Global Immunization Vision and Strategy

64th WHA, item 13.5, 20.05.2011

Statement on the management of conflicts of interest in global immunization governance

NGOs call on Member States to STOP the World Health Forum

PRESS RELEASE 16th May 2011

World Health Assembly, United Nations Geneva