WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SANTE REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA BUREAU REGIONAL DE L’AFRIQUE
ORGANIZAÇÃO MUNDIAL DE SAÚDE ESCRITÓRIO REGIONAL AFRICANO
REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA 2003 Fifty-third session Johannesburg, South Africa, 1–5 September 2003 Provisional agenda item 4 AGENDA 1. Opening of the meeting 2. Constitution of the Subcommittee on Nominations 3. Election of the Chairman, the Vice-Chairmen and the Rapporteurs 4. Adoption of the Agenda (document AFR/RC53/1) 5. Appointment of members of the Subcommittee on Credentials
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6. The Work of WHO in the African Region: Annual Report of the Regional Director for 2002 (document AFR/RC53/2) 6.1 Implementation of the Programme Budget 2002–2003 6.2 Progress reports on specific resolutions (a) Regional programme for tuberculosis (b) Regional strategy for emergency and humanitarian action (c) Integrated epidemiological surveillance of diseases: Regional strategy for communicable diseases (d) Regional strategy for mental health (e) Health-for-All Policy for the 21st century in the African Region: Agenda 2020 (f) Noncommunicable diseases: A strategy for the African Region (g) Adolescent Health: A strategy for the African Region (h) Regional strategy for immunization during the period 2003–2005 7. Correlation between the work of the Regional Committee, the Executive Board and the World Health Assembly 7.1 Ways and means of implementing resolutions of regional interest adopted by the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board (document AFR/RC53/3) 7.2 Agendas of the one-hundred-and-thirteenth session of the Executive Board , the Fifty-seventh World Health Assembly and the fifty-fourth session of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC53/4)
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7.3 Method of work and duration of the World Health Assembly (document AFR/RC53/5) 7.4 Evaluation of the implementation of Resolution WHA51.31—Regular budget allocations to regions (document AFR/RC53/14) 8. Report of the Programme Subcommittee (document AFR/RC53/7) 8.1 Macroeconomics and health: The way forward in the African Region (document AFR/RC53/8 Rev. 1) 8.2 Strengthening the role of hospitals in national health systems (document AFR/RC53/9 Rev. 1) 8.3 Injury prevention and control in the African Region: Current situation and agenda for action (document AFR/RC53/10 Rev. 1) 8.4 Women’s health: A strategy for the African Region (document AFR/RC53/11 Rev. 1) 8.5 Food safety and health: Situation analysis and perspectives (document AFR/RC53/12 Rev. 1) 8.6 Scaling up the interventions related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (document AFR/RC53/13 Rev. 1) 9. Information 9.1 9.2 Eradication of dracunculiasis in the WHO African Region (AFR/RC53/INF/DOC.1) SARS preparedness and response in the WHO African Region (AFR/RC53/INF/DOC.2)
10. Qualifications and selection of the Regional Director (AFR/RC53/15) 11. Round Tables 11.1 Laboratory services in the provision of quality health care (document AFR/RC53/RT/1) 11.2 Safe motherhood: Improving access to emergency obstetric care (document AFR/RC53/RT/2) 11.3 Emergency and humanitarian action: Improving the effectiveness of health interventions (document AFR/RC53/RT/3) 12. Report of the Round Tables (document AFR/RC53/16) 13. Procedural decisions (document AFR/RC53/20) 14. Dates and places of the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth sessions of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC53/17) 15. Adoption of the report of the Regional Committee (document AFR/RC53/18) 16. Closure of the fifty-third session of the Regional Committee