WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ BUREAU RÉGIONAL DE L’AFRIQUE
ORGANIZAÇÃO MUNDIAL DE SAÚDE ESCRITÓRIO REGIONAL AFRICANO
REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA AFR/RC54/7
7 July 2004 Fifty-fourth session Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 30 August–3 September 2004 Provisional agenda item 8.2 AGENDAS OF THE ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEENTH SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, THE FIFTY-EIGHTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY AND THE FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE Report of the Regional Director EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. By Resolution AFR/RC30/R6, the thirtieth session of the Regional Committee approved the procedure of coordinating the agendas of the Governing Bodies of WHO at global and regional levels. 2. Pursuant to Article 50 of the Constitution, operative paragraph 4(3) of Resolution WHA33.17 and Recommendation 16 of the Executive Board Working Group, the Regional Committee is invited to consider the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session and decide on issues that should be recommended to the one-hundred-and-fifteenth session of the Executive Board and the Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly. CONTENTS Paragraphs INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 1–2 DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDAS OF THE ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEENTH SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, THE FIFTY-EIGHTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY AND THE FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE ......................................................................................................... 3–6 Annexes 1. 2. Pages Draft provisional agenda of the one-hundred-and-fifteenth session of the Executive Board (EB115) ........................................................................................................................... 3 Draft provisional agenda of the fifty-fifth session of the Regional Committee ........................ 5
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INTRODUCTION 1. The World Health Assembly, in its Resolution WHA33.17, determined that WHO’s directing, coordinating and technical cooperation functions are mutually supportive and decided that the work of the Organization at all levels should be interrelated. Thus, the Provisional Agenda of the Regional Committee is drawn up so as to harmonize it, to the extent possible, with those of the Executive Board and the World Health Assembly. This will enhance the contribution of the African Region to the work of the Governing Bodies. 2. The following table shows the correlation between the agendas of the one-hundred-andfifteenth session of the Executive Board (January 2005), the Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly (May 2005), and the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth sessions of the Regional Committee. The Committee may wish to identify issues of regional and global interest that could be recommended to the Executive Board. Table: Correlation between the agendas of the Executive Board, the World Health Assembly and the Regional Committee
Subject 1. Revision of the international health regulations: Update 2. Achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals: Status report 3. Responding to health aspects of crises 4. WHO General Programme of Work 2006–2015 5. Proposed Programme Budget 2006–2007 6. Blood safety: Proposal for establishment of World Blood Donor Day 7. Poliomyelitis 8. World Summit on health research implementation 9. Scaling up treatment and care within a coordinated and comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS (WHA57.14)
Agenda items EB115 WHA58 RC54 4.1 12.5 4.2 4.3 5.4 5.3 4.6 9.2 9.4 9.5E 12.2 6.2a 10 11 6.2d 12.1 6.2c 9.4
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DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDAS OF THE ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEENTH SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, THE FIFTY-EIGHTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY AND THE FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
3. In accordance with the Rules of Procedures of the Executive Board, the provisional agenda of each session of the Board shall be drawn up by the Director-General in consultation with the Board’s chairman. It shall be dispatched with the notice of convocation six (6) weeks before the commencement of a session. 4. The attached indicative list of items for the one-hundred-and-fifteenth session of the Executive Board will be subject to further consultations between the Director-General and the
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Chairman. It includes items requested by the Health Assembly or the Board at a previous session, items proposed by members of the Board and items proposed by the Director-General. It is submitted to the Regional Committee for information. 5. In accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Health Assembly, the Executive Board shall prepare the provisional agenda of each regular session of the Health Assembly after consideration of proposals submitted by the Director-General. 6. The attached draft agenda for the fifty-fifth session of the Regional Committee has been drawn up by the Regional Director and is submitted for discussion and approval by the Regional Committee.
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION EXECUTIVE BOARD 115th Session Geneva, 17–25 January 2005 Draft provisional agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. Opening of the session and adoption of the agenda Report by the Director-General • Discussion on issues raised Report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee Technical and health matters 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7
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Revision of the International Health Regulations: update Achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals: status report Responding to health aspects of crises Infant and young child nutrition Further to discussion at WHA57 Social health insurance Further to discussion at EB114 Blood safety: proposal for establishment of World Blood Donor Day Procedures and guidelines • National inspection of pharmaceutical manufacturing sites for starting materials: model certification scheme • International Nonproprietary Names: revised procedures • Dependence-producing psychoactive substances: supplementary guidelines Deferred from EB114 Programme budget 2002–2003: performance assessment report Guiding principles for regular budget allocations to regions Decision WHA57(10) Proposed programme budget 2006–2007 General Programme of Work 2006–2015: review of process and draft outline Assessed contributions • Status of collection, including Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution • Assessment for 2006–2007 Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules [if any]
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Management matters 7.1 7.2 7.3 Appointment of the Regional Director for Africa Appointment of the Regional Director for Europe Governing body matters • Working methods of the Health Assembly • Provisional agenda of the Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly and date and place of the 116th session of the Executive Board Report of the Standing Committeee on Nongovernmental Organizations, including reconsideration of two applications for admission into official relations with WHO As agreed at EB114 Reports of the foundation committees Report of the Joint Inspection Unit • Previous JIU reports: implementation of recommendations • Recent JIU reports, including multilingualism and access to information in WHO Human resources • Annual report • Amendments to the Staff Rules [if any] Statement by the representative of the WHO staff associations Reports of advisory bodies • Report on forty-second session of the global Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) • Expert committees and study groups Poliomyelitis International Plan of Action on Ageing: Report on implementation World Summit on Health Research (Mexico City, 16 to 20 November 2004) Reports requested by earlier resolutions A. Promotion of healthy lifestyles, including WHO’s future work on alcohol consumption (resolution WHA57.16) B. Violence and health (resolution WHA56.24) C. Smallpox eradication: Destruciton of Variola virus stocks (resolution WHA55.15) D. Traditional medicine (resolution WHA56.31) E. Scaling up treatment and care within a coordinated and comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS (resolution WHA57.14) F. Strategic approach to international chemicals management (resolution WHA56.22)
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10. Closure of the session.
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ANNEX 2 Rev.1 REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Fifty-fifth session Venue 29 August–2 September 2005 AFR/RC55/1 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDA OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Opening of the meeting Constitution of the Subcommittee on Nominations Election of the Chairperson, the Vice-Chairperson and the Rapporteurs Adoption of the Agenda Appointment of members of the Subcommittee on Credentials The Work of WHO in the African Region 2004: Annual Report of the Regional Director 6.1 6.2 Implementation of the Programme Budget 2004-2005 Progress reports on specific resolutions (a) Elimination of leprosy in the African Region (b) Regional programme for tuberculosis (c) Regional strategy for emergency and humanitarian action (d) Integrated epidemiological surveillance of diseases: Regional strategy for communicable diseases (e) Regional strategy for immunization during the period 2003-2005 (f) Health and environment: A strategy for the African Region (g) Poverty and health: A strategy for the African Region (h) Human resources development for health: Accelerating implementation of the regional strategy (i) Migration of skilled health personnel (j) Macroeconomics and health: The way forward in the African Region (k) Food safety and health: A situation analysis and perspectives (l) Scaling up interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the WHO African Region (m) Implementation of the 3 by 5 Initiative in the African Region (n) Implementation of the regional strategy against malaria in the African Region (o) Poliomyelitis eradication
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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 Agendas of the one-hundred-and-seventeenth session of the Executive Board, the Fifty-ninth World Health Assembly and the fifty-sixth session of the Regional Committee Method of work and duration of the World Health Assembly
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Report of the Programme Subcommittee 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Framework for implementation of Programme Budget 2006-2007 in the African Region Achieving health-related millennium development goals: Situation analysis and perspectives in the African Region Local production of essential medicines, including antiretrovirals: Issues, challenges and perspectives in the African Region. Regional strategy for the control of human African trypanosomiasis Cardiovascular diseases in the African Region: Current situation and perspectives Country cooperation strategies: Lessons learned and follow-up International convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings: Development of an African position
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Round Tables 9.1 9.2 Prevention of HIV/AIDS in the African Region Health inequalities: A matter of concern in the African Region
10. Report of the Round Tables 11. Dates and places of the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh sessions of the Regional Committee 12. Procedural decisions 13. Adoption of the report of the Regional Committee 14. Closure of the fifty-fifth session of the Regional Committee.