| No images? Click here  Friday 26.05.2023 | Issue 205 21-30 May Continuation of Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly The World Health Assembly (WHA) 2023 continues tomorrow and on Monday and Tuesday next week. The WHA is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of this year's assembly will be Saving lives, driving health for all and will come during the year that WHO celebrates its 75th anniversary. Keys links for WHA76 can be found below and are available in 6 UN languages: WHA76 will be webcast live from the WHO website 27 May - Details of tomorrow's final daily strategic roundtable can be found here The provisional agenda, Assembly documents and daily journals can be accessed here  Wednesday, 31 May World No Tobacco Day On World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization urges governments to stop subsidizing tobacco farming and support more sustainable crops that could feed millions. More than 300 million people globally are faced with acute food insecurity. Meanwhile more than 3 million hectares of land across more than 120 countries are being used to grow deadly tobacco, even in countries where people are starving. A new WHO report, “Grow food, not tobacco”, highlights the ills of tobacco growing and the benefits of switching to more sustainable food crops for farmers, communities, economies, the environment, and the world at large. View a press release on No World Tobacco Day here. Interviews available upon request.  31 May - 1 June 153rd session of the Executive Board The 153rd session of the Executive Board (EB) will open on Wednesday. The EB is composed of 34 technically qualified members elected for three-year terms. The main functions of the Board are to implement the decisions and policies of the Health Assembly, and to advise and generally facilitate its work. You can watch the proceeding via livestream here. Recordings will also be made available.  Thursday, 1 June UN Global Day of Parents Families, parents and caregivers play a central role in child well-being and development. They offer identity, love, care, provision and protection to children and adolescents as well as economic security and stability. In support of Global Day of Parents, WHO has developed guidelines on parenting interventions. It provides evidence-based recommendations that are designed to prevent child maltreatment and harsh parenting, enhance parent-child relationships, prevent poor mental health among parents and reduce emotional and behavioural problems among children. More information.
Launch of Expert Committee on Drug Dependence technical repository WHO will launch a repository of all technical reports and documents to provide its audience with a single source of information. The work, by WHO’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD), is an important resource for health professionals and policy makers, as many of the substances reviewed by ECDD have otherwise limited information regarding their public health risk. It will represent the only online, freely accessible collection of information and reports on new psychoactive substances and controlled medicines comprising over 450 substances.  Sign up for our newsletters here. Check out the WHO series, Science in 5. Latest WHO Disease Outbreak News (DONs) here. Listen to Global Health Matters. Access WHO photos available for media use here.  WHO Media contacts:  You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. |
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