AFR/RC57/1 24 May 2007
REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Fifty-seventh session Brazzaville, Republic of Congo 27–31 August 2007 Provisional agenda: item 4
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PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR THE FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE 1. Opening of the meeting 2. Constitution of the Subcommittee on Nominations 3. Election of the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman and the Rapporteurs 4. Adoption of the agenda (document AFR/RC57/1) 5. Appointment of members of the Subcommittee on Credentials 6. The Work of WHO in the African Region 2006: Annual Report of the Regional Director (document AFR/RC57/2) 7. Report of the Programme Subcommittee (document AFR/RC57/15) 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 Resurgence of cholera in the WHO African Region: Current situation and way forward (document AFR/RC57/3) Food safety and health: A strategy for the WHO African Region (document AFR/RC57/4) Onchocerciasis control in the WHO African Region: Current situation and way forward (document AFR/RC57/5) Accelerating the elimination of avoidable blindness: A strategy for the African Region (document AFR/RC57/6) Diabetes prevention and control: A strategy for the WHO African Region (document AFR/RC57/7) Health systems strengthening in the WHO African Region: Realities and opportunities (document AFR/RC57/8) Development of human resources for health in the WHO African Region: Current situation and way forward (document AFR/RC57/9) Tuberculosis and HIV: A strategy for the control of a dual epidemic in the WHO African Region (document AFR/RC57/10) WHO Programme Budget 2008-2009: Orientations for implementation in the African Region (document AFR/RC57/11)
AFR/RC57/1 Page 2 7.10 Review of the membership and terms of reference of the Programme Subcommittee (document AFR/RC57/12) 7.11 Key social determinants of health: Call for intersectoral actions to improve health status in the African Region (document AFR/RC57/13) 7.12 Harmful use of Alcohol in the WHO African Region: Situation analysis and perspectives (document AFR/RC57/14) 8. Information 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Polio eradication: Progress report (document AFR/RC57/INF.DOC/1) Leprosy elimination: Progress report (document AFR/RC57/INF.DOC/2) Report on WHO staff in the African Region (document AFR/RC57/INF.DOC/3) WHO internal and external audit reports: Implications for the African Region (document AFR/RC57/INF.DOC/4) Meeting of African Region Delegations to the World Health Assembly (document AFR/RC57/INF.DOC/5) Public health, innovation and intellectual property: Progress made in the intergovernmental working group to facilitate implementation of resolution WHA59.24 (document AFR/RC57/INF.DOC/6)
9. Round Table: Cancer prevention and control in the WHO African Region (document AFR/RC57/RT/1) 10. Panel Discussion: The role of the community in improving maternal, newborn and child health (document AFR/RC57/PD/1) 11. Report of the Round Table and Panel discussion (document AFR/RC57/16) 12. Ways and means of implementing resolutions of regional interest adopted by the Sixtieth World Health Assembly, and agendas of the one-hundred-and-twenty-second session of the Executive Board and the fifty-eighth session of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC57/17) 13. Dates and places of the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth sessions of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC57/18) 14. Adoption of the report of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC57/19) 15. Closure of the fifty-seventh session of the Regional Committee.