AFR/RC56/1 12 July 2006
REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Fifty-sixth session Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 28 August–1 September 2006 Provisional agenda item 4
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PROVISIONAL AGENDA OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Opening of the meeting Constitution of the Subcommittee on Nominations Election of the Chairman, the Vice-Chairmen and the Rapporteurs Adoption of the Agenda (document AFR/RC56/1) Appointment of members of the Subcommittee on Credentials The Work of WHO in the African Region 2004–2005: Biennial Report of the Regional Director (document AFR/RC56/2) Correlation between the work of the Regional Committee, the Executive Board and the World Health Assembly 7.1 7.2 Ways and means of implementing resolutions of regional interest adopted by the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board (document AFR/RC56/4) Agendas of the one-hundred-and-nineteenth session of the Executive Board, the Sixtieth World Health Assembly and the fifty-seventh session of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC56/5) Method of work and duration of the World Health Assembly (document AFR/RC56/6)
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Report of the Programme Subcommittee (document AFR/RC56/3) 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Regional strategic plan for the Expanded Programme on Immunization, 2006–2009 (document AFR/RC56/7) HIV prevention in the African Region: a strategy for renewal and acceleration (document AFR/RC56/8) Poverty, trade and health: an emerging health development issue (document AFR/RC56/9) Health financing: a strategy for the African Region (document AFR/RC56/10) Medicines regulatory authorities: current status and the way forward (document AFR/RC56/11) Revitalizing health services using the primary health care approach in the African Region (document AFR/RC56/12) Child survival: a strategy for the African Region (document AFR/RC56/13)
AFR/RC56/1 Page 2 8.8 8.9 Health research: agenda for the WHO African Region (document AFR/RC56/14) Avian influenza: preparedness and response to the threat of a pandemic (document AFR/RC56/15)
8.10 Knowledge management in the WHO African Region: strategic directions (document AFR/RC56/16) 8.11 Sickle-cell disease in the African Region: current situation and the way forward (document AFR/RC56/17) 9. Review of the draft Medium Term Strategic Plan 2008-2013 and the Proposed Programme Budget 2008–2009 (document AFR/RC56/18) 10. Information 10.1 10.2 Polio eradication in the African Region: progress report (document AFR/RC56/INF.DOC/1) Implementation of the International Health Regulations (document AFR/RC56/INF.DOC/2)
10.3 Report on human resources in WHO in the African Region (document AFR/RC56/INF.DOC/3) 10.4 10.5 11. Current situation of onchocerciasis control in the African Region (document AFR/RC56/INF.DOC/4) Terms of reference of the Meeting of African Delegations to the World Health Assembly (document AFR/RC56/INF.DOC/5)
Round Table: Intersectoral action for health promotion and disease prevention (document AFR/RC56/RT/1)
12. Panel Discussion - Malaria control in the African Region: experiences and perspectives (document AFR/RC56/PD/1) 13. Reports of the Round Table and the Panel Discussion (document AFR/RC56/19) 14. Smallpox eradication: destruction of variola virus stocks (document AFR/RC56/20) 15. Dates and places of the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth sessions of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC56/21) 16. Date and place of the 2008 global ministerial conference on research for health (document AFR/RC56/22) 17. Date and place of the seventh global conference on health promotion in 2009 (document AFR/RC56/23) 18. Adoption of the report of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC56/24) 19. Closure of the fifty-sixth session of the Regional Committee