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Agenda 1. 2. Opening of the session and adoption of the agenda Gearing up for the next four years • Director-General: towards a strategic agenda for the WHO Secretariat • Poverty and health: breaking the vicious circle • Evidence and information for policy: trends and challenges in world health • Working in and with countries • Public-private partnerships for health • Draft policy on extrabudgetary resources • Programme budget priorities for 2002-2003 3. Technical and health matters 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 4. Food safety: the role of WHO WHO framework convention on tobacco control HIV/AIDS: confronting the epidemic Stop TB Initiative Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
Staff development and support 4.1 4.2 Human resources: annual report Statement by the representative of the WHO staff associations on matters concerning personnel policy and conditions of service
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Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations • Guidelines for the WHO review of dependence-producing psychoactive substances for international control (decision EB103(5))
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Implementation of budget resolutions (resolutions EB103.R6 and WHA52.20) Management and financial matters 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Appointment of the Regional Directors for Africa and Europe Use of languages in WHO Research strategy and mechanisms for cooperation (follow-up) Other management issues • Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent which would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution • Casual income • Real Estate Fund • Financial Regulations and Rules • Report of the International Civil Service Commission and confirmation of amendments to the Staff Rules • Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit • Collaboration with nongovernmental organizations: report of the Standing Committee on Nongovernmental Organizations 7.5 Legal issues • Regional committees and regional conventions • Participation of WHO in the 1986 Vienna Convention on the law of treaties between States and international organizations or between international organizations 7.6 Executive Board matters • Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Executive Board on election of the Chairman • Membership of the Audit Committee
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• Provisional agenda for and duration of the Fifty-third World Health Assembly • Date and place of the 106th session of the Executive Board 7.7 8. Awards
Matters for information 8.1 Report on meetings of expert committees and study groups (including report on appointments to expert advisory panels and committees) Implementation of resolutions and decisions • [Transferred to agenda item 3.5] • Revised drug strategy (resolution WHA52.19) • Health promotion (resolution WHA51.12) • Elimination of transmission of Chagas disease (resolution WHA51.14) • Technical cooperation among developing countries (resolution WHA42.37) • Infant and young child nutrition (resolution WHA33.32) • Cloning in human health (resolution WHA51.10) • Poliomyelitis eradication (resolution WHA52.22)
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Supplementary agenda item - Global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION EXECUTIVE BOARD 105th Session Geneva, 24-29 January 2000 EB105/1 Add.1 15 December 1999
Provisional agenda: supplementary item Supplementary agenda item 1: Global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases In response to resolution WHA51.18, which requested the Director-General to submit to the Health Assembly a global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, the Director-General, in consultation with the Chairman of the Executive Board, has included this supplementary item on the provisional agenda.
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