WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE BUREAU REGIONAL DE L'AFRIQUE
ORGANIZAÇAO MUNDIAL DE SAUnE SEDE REGIONAL AFRICANA
REGIONAL COMMITIEE FOR AFRICA forty-njnth sessjon Windhoek. Namjbia. 3Q August - 3 September 1999 Provisional al/enda item 1
AFR/RC49/1 Rev.4 28 July 1999
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DRAFI' PROVISIONAL AGENDA 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Opening of the meeting Constitution of the Subcommittee on Nominations Election of the Chairman, the Viee-Chainnen and Rapporteurs Adoption of the Agenda (document AFRlRC49/1 Rev. 3) Appointment ofmembers of the Subcommittee on Credentials The work of WHO in the African Region 1998 (document AFRIRC49/2): • • Annual Report of the Regional Director Progress reports on specifie programme areas: Reproductive health; Quality of care; Epidemiologieal surveillance; Poliomyelitis eradication; Cornmunity-based rehabilitation; Regional information, education and communication (ZEe) strategy for health promotion in African communities; Tobaeco control; HIV/AlDS The situation of the WHO Regional Office for Africa
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Election of the Regional Director Correlation between the work of the Regional Committee, the Executive Board and the World Health Assembly 8.1 Ways and means of implementing resolutions of regional interest adopted by the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board (document AFRlRC49/3) 8.2 Agendas of the one-hundred-and-fifth session of the Executive Board and the Fifty-third World Health Assembly (document AFRIRC49/4) 8.3 Method ofwork and duration of the World Health Assembly (document AFRlRC49/5)
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Report of the Programme Subcommittee (document AFRlRC49/6) 9.1 Health sector referm in the WHO African Region: Status ofimplementation and perspectives (document AFRIRC4917)
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9.2 Regional Health-for-Al\ policy for the 21st century (document AFRJRC49/8b Rev. 1) 9.3 Regional strategy for mental health (document AFRJRC49/9) 9.4 Integrated Management of Childhood mness: AFRJRC49/1O) 9.5 Essential drugs in the WHO African Region: AFRJRC49111) Strategie plan for 2000-2005 (document
Situation and trend analysis (document
9.6 Health technology policy in the African Region (document AFR/RC49/12) 9.7 Review of the implementation of the Bamako Initiative: Report of the Regional Director (document AFRJRC49/13) 10. Technical Discussions: Disease control in the African Region in the 21st century (document AFRJRC49ITD/I) Il. Presentation of the report of the Technical Discussions (document AFR/RC49/ 14) 12. Choiee ofsubject for the Technical Discussions in 2000 (document AFRJRC49/15) 13. Nomination of the Chairman and the Alternate Chairman for the Technical Discussions in 2000 (document AFRJRC49/l6) 14. Procedural decisions 15. Dates and places of the fiftieth and fif'ty-first sessions of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC49/17) 16. Adoption of the report of the Regional Committee (document AFRJRC49/18) 17. Closure of the forty-ninth session of the Regional Committee
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