Outcomes of WHO Watch in May 2015, WHA68 and EB137

Posted Wed, 2015-06-17 15:44

The 68th Session of the World Health Assembly met in Geneva from 18 to 26 May 2015. See the Official Page. PHM was at the WHA through its initiative, WHO Watch. To know more about WHO Watch follow the link here.

PHM’s materials (below) build on documents developed through an extended network of experts associated with PHM. Statements delivered to the WHA, notes and reports after the debate are prepared by the watching team which, for WHA68, included: Daniel Amoun (Egypte), Claire Elise Burdet (Switzerland), Mohamed Gad (Egypte), Ornella Punzo (Italy/UK), Natalie Van Gijel (Belgium), Susana Barria (Global Secretariat, New Delhi), David Legge (Australia). The team was accompanied by Sebastian Saugues (movie maker, France).

Summary Report of WHA68 discussions

  • WHA68: What happened?: here

Notes of the discussions

  • 68th World Health Assembly, 19-26 May 2015: here

  • 137th Executive Board, 27-28 May 2015: here

Statements

  • WHO’s relationships with ‘non-state actors’ (including corporations) (agenda item 11.2): video, text and more detailed background;

  • Follow up of the Second International Conference on Nutrition: video, text and more detailed background (agenda item 13.1);

  • Air pollution (agenda item 14.6): video, text and more detailed background;

  • Anti-microbial resistance (agenda item 15.1): video, text and more detailed background;

  • Ebola outbreak and follow up (agenda item 16.1): video, text and more detailed background;

  • Global Vaccine Action Plan (agenda item 16.4): text and more detailed background;

  • Non-communicable diseases: video, text and more detailed background;

  • Global Code on International Recruitment of Health Personel (agenda item 17.2): text and more detailed background;

  • Acting on rubbish drugs but not outlawing generic medicines (SSFFCMPs, agenda item 17.3: video and text and more detailed background;

  • Delinking pharma research and development from patent monopoly (CEWG, agenda item 17.4): video, text and more detailed background;

  • Global strategy on public health and intellectual property (GSPOA, agenda item 17.5): text and more detailed background.

Press Conference, Policy Briefs and Commentary

Press Conference: Defend the World Health Organization from corporate takeover

Pre-WHA Comprehensive Commentary: here

Compiled policy brief here, includes:

  • Non-State Actors (NSA) (agenda item 11.2 ) - Press Brief

  • Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (agenda item 13.1) - Policy Brief

  • Malaria: draft global technical strategy: post 2015 (agenda item 16.2) - Policy Brief

  • Follow up of the Report of the CEWG (agenda 17.4) - Policy Brief

Critical to the WHO Watch project are the links between the watching processes and the struggles for health in various districts, states and provinces and at the national level. These links enable local activists to keep in touch with the global policy movements which shape the context for such local struggles. These links also help to ensure that policy analysis and policy advocacy at the regional and global levels is informed by the reality of grass roots activism, both in health systems and around the conditions which shape health.

For more details on PHM's work at the WHA68 visit the WHA68 page.