WHA Media Highlights - Day 6 of the 78th World Health Assembly (24 May 2025)

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No images? Click here Saturday, 24 May 2025 WHA Highlights for Media Day 6 of the 78th World Health Assembly (24 May) The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78) continues at the Palais des Nations in Geneva today in Committee A, which will meet in the morning, from 09.00 to 12.00 CEST.   The detailed programme of work can be found in the Daily Journal N°6, available in six languages of the United Nations (UN).   The live webcast of the proceedings can be accessed here, simultaneous interpretation will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Highlights of the day: Approval of the decisions on rare diseases, skin diseases, and on accelerating the eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease)  Action on the decision on strengthening health financing globally Social media live on fighting falsified medicines, 13.00 CEST on WHO socials Committee A Under the agenda item on universal health coverage and primary health care, the Committee will discuss the approval of decisions related to the uptake and impact of norms and standards (EB156(14)), rare diseases (EB156(15)), health financing globally (EB156(16)), medical imaging capacity (EB156(17)). On communicable diseases, it will address decisions on accelerating the eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease) (EB156(23)) and on skin diseases as a global public health priority (EB156(24)), and will discuss the progress on the Global road map on defeating meningitis by 2030 (A78/4). The Committee will also discuss the issue of substandard and falsified medical products (EB156(25)), and time permitting, the standardization of medical devices nomenclature (A78/4). #ASKWHO All about fighting falsified medicines (social media live) at 13.00 CEST Speakers: Dr Rutendo Kuwana, WHO Team lead for incidents and substandard/falsified medical products; Oksana Pyzik, Academic Chair of the Fight the Fakes Alliance, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice & Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, and Dr Obaidullah, CEO, Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan. Media resources: WHA78 agenda, documents, preliminary daily table (tentative programme of work for the entire WHA78) and daily journal (detailed programme of work for the day) WHA78 live webcast and the provisional list of speakers  List of delegates and other participants A78/DIV./1 (provisional) WHO Director-General's opening address at the 78th World Health Assembly Broadcast video material and other press content will be updated via Canto.  For any questions related to live video transmission, please get in touch with tvstudio@who.int Photos will be available for media use via the WHO Photo Library - please address questions to photos@who.int  WHA78 Daily Updates contain a recap of the discussions in the Health Assembly and are sent at the end of the day Media accreditation for WHA78 is being handled by the United Nations Office at Geneva; please request an accreditation via Indico Side events lists: WHO, UN Foundation and Global Health Strategies Media contacts: mediainquiries@who.int   You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team       Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe