REGIONAL COMMITTEE Sixty-first Session SEARO, New Delhi 8–11 September 2008
Provisional Agenda item 17.2 SEA/RC61/16 21 July 2008
REVIEW OF THE DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDAS OF THE 124TH SESSION OF THE WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD AND THE SIXTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY* The 124th session of the Executive Board will be held in Geneva from 19 to 27 January 2009. The draft provisional agenda for the 124th session of the Executive Board was submitted to the Meeting of the Advisory Committee (ACM), held in New Delhi, from 30 June – 3 July 2008 for its review. The ACM made the following recommendations:
Action by Member States and WHO/SEARO (1) To review and provide further inputs for the concept paper drafted by Thailand on proposed inclusion of an item on “Capacity Building to Support Roles of Private Sector in Health Care” in the agenda for the 124th session of the Executive Board; and Upon receipt of inputs from the Member countries of the SEA Region, Thailand on behalf of the Region, should officially submit the proposal to the DirectorGeneral’s Office, WHO/HQ, Geneva before 12 September 2008.
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The draft provisional agenda of the 124th session of the Executive Board is now placed before the Sixty-first Session of the Regional Committee for its review, comment and noting, as appropriate.
* Subject to its availability at the time of the Sixty-first Session of the Regional Committee
EXECUTIVE BOARD 124th Session Geneva, 19–27 January 2009
EB124/1 (draft) 20 June 2008
Draft provisional agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. Opening of the session and adoption of the agenda Report by the Director-General Report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board Technical and health matters 4.1 Pandemic influenza preparedness: sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005) HIV/AIDS and mental health Prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment Primary health care: 30 years of the Alma-Ata Declaration Commission on Social Determinants of Health Monitoring of the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals Climate change and health WHO’s role and responsibilities in health research
4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9
4.10 International recruitment of health personnel: draft global code of practice 4.11 Counterfeit medical products 4.12 Human organ and tissue transplantation 4.13 Public health, innovation and intellectual property: global strategy and plan of action
EB124/1 (draft)
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Programme and budget matters 5.1 5.2 5.3 Programme budget 2006–2007: performance assessment Implementation of Programme budget 2008–2009: interim report Medium-term strategic plan 2008–2013 and Proposed programme budget 2010–2011
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Financial matters 6.1 6.2 Unaudited interim financial report for the financial period 2008–2009 Assessed contributions • Status of collection, including Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution • Scale of assessments for 2010–2011 6.3 Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules
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Management matters 7.1 7.2 7.3 Partnerships Multilingualism: implementation of action plan Reports of committees of the Executive Board • Standing Committee on Nongovernmental Organizations • Foundations and awards 7.4 Provisional agenda of the Sixty-second World Health Assembly and date and place of the 125th session of the Executive Board
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Staffing matters 8.1 8.2 8.3 Appointment of the Regional Director for South-East Asia Appointment of the Regional Director for the Western Pacific Human resources: annual report (including employment and participation of women in the work of WHO) Report of the International Civil Service Commission Amendments to Staff Rules and Staff Regulations [if any] Statement by the representative of the WHO staff associations
8.4 8.5 8.6
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Matters for information 9.1 9.2 Reports of expert committees and study groups Progress reports A. B. C. Poliomyelitis: mechanism for management of potential risks to eradication Smallpox eradication: destruction of variola stocks (resolution WHA60.1) Malaria, including proposal (resolution WHA60.18) for establishment of World Malaria Day
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Implementation by WHO of the recommendations of the Global Task Team on Improving AIDS Coordination among Multilateral Institutions and International Donors (resolution WHA59.12) Prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections (resolution WHA59.19) Strengthening of health information systems (resolution WHA60.27) Universal coverage of maternal, newborn and child health interventions (resolution WHA58.31) Integrating gender analysis and actions into the work of WHO: draft strategy (resolution WHA60.25) Rational use of medicines (resolution WHA60.16) Better medicines for children (resolution WHA60.20) Health technologies (resolution WHA60.29)
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Closure of the session
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REGIONAL COMMITTEE Sixty-first Session SEARO, New Delhi 8–11 September 2008
Provisional Agenda item 17.2 SEA/RC61/16 Inf.Doc. 21 July 2008
REVIEW OF THE DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDAS OF THE 124TH SESSION OF THE WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD AND THE SIXTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY*
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Resolution EB122.R8 (Method of work of the Health Assembly) of the 122nd session of the Executive Board. Rules of Procedures of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization.
* Subject to its availability at the time of the Sixty-first Session of the Regional Committee