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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

New R&D Group entangled in conflict-of-interest issues

Geneva, 27 Jan (Heba Wanis) -- The Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) accepted the appointment of a major pharmaceutical company executive as a member of the new WHO Consultative Expert Working Group (CEWG) set up to find ways to finance research and development (R&D) into diseases afflicting developing countries despite "conflict of interest" concerns.
 

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