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The Road to Access – Discussions on Medicines at 71st World Health Assembly

The debate around access to medicines within the WHO comes with a long and complicated history, and it is usually one of the most hotly debated topics during the organisation’s high-level meetings.

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General Program of Work as Strategic Priority For World Health Organization

The General Programme of Work 13 (GPW) provides a framework for the WHO’s work in the coming five years. The new GPW, it is claimed, will strengthen the role of WHO in global health governance, enable the organisation to address its decade long financial crisis, and contribute to the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The areas of ‘strategic importance’ were identified through online public consultations in an attempt to make the drafting of the programme more transparent and participatory.

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Temperature Rose at World Health Assembly over Palestine Discussion

The 71st World Health Assembly (WHA), held in Geneva from 21-26 May, had a discussion on the Director General’s report on health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Syrian Golan, and a

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No Fencing Away For ‘Private-Collaborators’ : the New WHO Director General Pacifies the Private Sector

The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the decision-making body of World Health Organisation. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by its Executive Board.

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Countries vote on Support for Palestine in World Health Assembly

20 countries abstained and 6 countries opposed a ‘draft decision’ on 23 May, proposing support to Palestine in its endeavour to provide health services in the current conflict ridden situation.