WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REGIONAL COMMITTEE Eighth Session Hong Kong 5-11 September 1957 Agenda Item 14.6 RELATIONS WITH UNICEF
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC wp/RC8/l3 10 July 1957 ORIGINAL: ENGUSH
The following resolution adopted by the Tenth World Health Assemblyl is submitted for information of the Committee: "The Tenth World Health Assembly, Having considered the report of the Director-General on Relations with UNICEF, 2 Noting that the financial arrangements between UNICEF and WHO continue to be satisfactory, Having noted the actions taken by the UNICEF Executive Board at its October/November 1956 and April 1957 sessions concerning questions which are of immediate interest to WHO, Considering the interest of the World Health Organization in malaria eradication as evidenced by the decisions of the World Health Assembly in resolution WHA8.30, and Considering the trends of resources which might be made available by UNICEF for jointly assisted UNICEF/WHO projects in the field of communicable diseases control and maternal and child health, 1. NOTES the report of the Director-General;
2. NOTES with appreciation that the UNICEF Executive Board has given emphasis to assistance for malaria eradication and considered it reasonable to retain througn 1961 the ceiling of $10 000 000 per year set in 1956 for this purpose; 3. NOTES with satisfaction that UNICEF has approved the principle of grants-in-aid to certain schools of medicine and public health to help them begin or strengthen the teaching of paediatrics and preventive medicine in order to render more effective the activities already undertaken or to be undertaken in relation to maternal and child health and that they have reaffirmed that this aid "would be supplementary to that available from WHO • • • and would as usual be planned in cloSQ consultation with WHO"; and 4. EXPRESSES its satisfaction with the continued close and effective co-operation between the two Organizations." /The attention of ••• lResolution WHA10.20 2Working document A10/P&B/8
WP/RC8/l3 Page 2 The attention of the Committee is drawn in particular to paragraph three of the resolution which relates to the extension of UNICEF's existing training policy to include grants-in-aid to selected schools of medicine and public health to help them establish or strengthen, the teaching of paediatrics (with special reference to social paediatrics) and preventive medicine. Such support will be limited to countries where it can be specifically related to UNICEF-assisted maternal and child health projects and the assistance will in no case exceed a period of five years with the understanding that the governments assisted will have an obligation to continue the programme from their own resources thereafter. The selection of projects will be in relation to the need for training and recruiting into the health services physicians with a broad knowledge of paediatrics and preventive medicine in order to develop on a firm basis health programmes being aided by UNICEF. Projects will not be recommended simply because of financial difficulties of the centre concerned. The implementation of the principle of aid to training in paediatrics and preventive medicine should vary with the conditions of the country concerned and the projects recommended over the next few years will be developed as pilot projects and the operation and results carefully evaluated. The grant-in-aid can take the form of equipment and supplies, local salary subsidies, possible award of fellowships to participants in seminars, conferences and study groups and stipends for within-country professional training of physicians in paediatrics and preventive medicine.