69th World Health Assembly

On Monday 23 May 2016 the Sixty-ninth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) starts in Geneva, Switzerland. The Health Assembly is the supreme decision-making body of World Health Organisation (WHO), attended by delegations from all WHO Member States. The agenda usually addresses the policies of the Organization, financial policies, and to review and approve the proposed programme budget.

This year the following topics are on the agenda:

• Responding to health emergencies
• Violence
• Women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health
• Ageing and health
• Maternal, infant and young child nutrition
• Childhood obesity
• Noncommunicable diseases
• 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Health effects of air pollution
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Poliomyelitis
• Health of migrants
• Global shortage of medicines
• Safety and accessibility of children’s medication
• Communicable diseases

One quarter of the topics on this agenda relate to communicable diseases, of which antimicrobial resistance and poliomyelitis require specific focus. The former is among the largest health threats that our society faces in the next generation, the latter because of the final stages of the Polio eradication efforts currently ongoing. Yet also on 'other communicable diseases' a lot has been done in collaboration with the WHO.

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