AFR/RC59/1 Add.1 29 July 2009
REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Fifty-ninth session Kigali, Republic of Rwanda, 31 August–4 September 2009
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
PROGRAMME OF WORK
DAY 1: Monday 31 August 2009 8.30 a.m.–11.20 a.m. 11.20 a.m.–12.00 a.m. Agenda item 1 Agenda item 2 Opening of the meeting Constitution of the Subcommittee on Nominations Chairman, fifty-eighth session of the Regional Committee Election of the Chairman, the ViceChairmen and Rapporteurs Adoption of the Agenda (Document AFR/RC59/1) Appointment of members of the Subcommittee on Credentials
12.00 a.m.–12.05 p.m.
Opening remarks
12.05 p.m.–12.30 p.m.
Agenda item 3
Agenda item 4
Agenda item 5
12.30 p.m.–3.00 p.m. 3.00 p.m.–3.15 p.m. 3.15 p.m.–4.15 p.m. 4.15 p.m.–4.45 p.m. 4.45 p.m.–6.15 p.m.
Lunch break Agenda item 5 (cont’d) Report of Subcommittee on Credentials Agenda item 6 Tea break Agenda item 7 The Work of WHO in the African Region: Annual Report of the Regional Director 2008 (Document AFR/RC59/2) Nomination of the Regional Director
6.15 p.m.–6.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m. 7.00 p.m.
Guest speakers End of day session Reception offered by the Government of the Republic of Rwanda
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DAY 2: Tuesday 1 September 2009 8.30 a.m.–8.45 a.m. Agenda item 8 Report of the Programme Subcommittee (Document AFR/RC59/15)
08.45 a.m.–11.00 a.m.
Discussions on the Report of the Programme Subcommittee Agenda item 8.1 Towards reaching health-related Millennium Development Goals: progress report and way forward (Document AFR/RC59/3) Framework for the implementation of the Ouagadougou Declaration on primary health care and health systems in Africa: achieving better health for Africa in the new millennium (Document AFR/RC59/4) Framework for the implementation of the Algiers Declaration on Research for Health in the African Region (Document AFR/RC59/5) Public health, innovation and intellectual property: regional perspective to implement the global strategy and plan of action (Document AFR/RC59/6)
Agenda item 8.2
Agenda item 8.3
Agenda item 8.4
11.00 a.m.–11.30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 12.30 p.m.–2.00 p.m.
Tea break Special Session: Lunch break African AIDS Vaccine Programme Special session on African Surveillance Project WHO Programme Budget 2010-2011: orientations for implementation in the African Region (Document AFR/RC59/7) Drug resistance related to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria: issues, challenges and way forward (Document AFR/RC59/8) Accelerated malaria control: towards elimination in the African Region (Document AFR/RC59/9)
2.00 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
Agenda item 8.5
Agenda item 8.6
Agenda item 8.7
3.30 p.m.–4.00 p.m.
Tea break
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4.00 p.m.–5.00 p.m
Agenda item 8.8
Tackling neglected tropical diseases in the African Region (Document AFR/RC59/10) Policy orientations on the establishment of centres of excellence for disease surveillance, public health laboratories, food and drug regulation (Document AFR/RC59/11)
Agenda item 8.9
5.00 p.m. 7.00 p.m.
End of day session Reception offered by the WHO Regional Director for Africa
DAY 3: Wednesday 2 September 2009 8.30 a.m.–10.00 a.m. Agenda item 8.10 Strengthening outbreak preparedness and response in the African Region in the context of the current influenza pandemic (Document AFR/RC59/12) Towards the elimination of measles in the African Region by 2020 (Document AFR/RC59/14) Terms of reference of the meeting of African Region delegations to the World Health Assembly and Executive Board (Document AFR/RC59/13)
Agenda item 8.11
10.00 a.m.–10.30 a.m.
Agenda item 8.12
10.30 a.m.–11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m.–12.30 p.m.
Tea break Agenda item 9 Agenda item 9.1 Information Acceleration of HIV prevention in the WHO African Region’: progress report (Document AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/1) Progress report on ‘Child Survival: a strategy for the African Region’ (Document AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/2) Implementation of the International Health Regulations in the African Region (Document AFR /RC59/INF.DOC/3)
Agenda item 9.2
Agenda item 9.3
12.30 p.m.–2.00 p.m. 2.00 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
Lunch break Agenda item 11 Round tables: Sharing best practices in strengthening local or district health systems (Document AFR/RC59/RT/1)
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3.30 p.m.–3.50 p.m. 3.50 p.m.–5.00 p.m. End of day session 5.00 p.m.–6.00 p.m.
Tea break Agenda 11 (cont’d)
Special Session:
Introduction of Conjugate Meningitis Vaccines in the countries of the African Meningitis Belt
DAY 4: Thursday 3 September 2009 8.30 a.m.–9.30 a.m. Agenda item 9 Information (cont’d) Agenda item 9.4 Agenda item 9.5 WHO internal and external audit reports (Document AFR /RC59/INF.DOC/4) Report on WHO Staff in the African Region (Document AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5) Poliomyelitis eradication: progress report Region (Document AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/6)
Agenda item 9.6
9.30 a.m.–10.30 a.m.
Agenda item 10
International recruitment of health personnel: draft global code of practice (Document AFR/RC59/16) Correlation between the work of the Regional Committee, the Executive Board and the World Health Assembly (Document AFR/RC59/17)
Agenda item 12
10.30 a.m.–11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m.–11.30 a.m.
Tea break Agenda item 13 Dates and places of the sixtieth and sixtyfirst sessions of the Regional Committee (Document AFR/RC59/18)
End of day session 12.30 p.m.–15.00 p.m. 15.00 p.m.–17.00 p.m. Lunch break Special Session: Ministerial consultation on TB control in the African Region
DAY 5: Friday 4 September 2009 10.00 a.m.–10.30 a.m. 10.30 a.m.–11.30 a.m. Tea break Agenda item 14 Adoption of the report of the Regional Committee (Document AFR/RC59/19)
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11.30 a.m.–12.30 p.m.
Special Session:
Celebrations of Women’s Health Day in the African Region Closure of the fifty-ninth session of the Regional Committee.
12.30 p.m.–13.00 p.m.
Agenda item 15