WHO Reform

WHO: Members' pressure leads to more inclusive reform process

Posted Tue, 2011-06-14 11:41 by dgh

K. M. Gopakumar and S. Shashikant on: TWN Info Service, June 2011
http://bit.ly/k2cack

Posted by Thomas Schwarz
14 June 2011

Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Financing for WHO

Posted Tue, 2011-06-14 11:41 by dgh

Health Action International (HAI) during WHA, May 2011
http://haieuropestaffblog.blogspot.com

Posted by Thomas Schwarz
14 June 2011

WHO’s reform – a key challenge for the Member States

Posted Tue, 2011-06-14 11:34 by dgh

In her editorial in the Health Diplomacy Monitor (pdf), Ilona Kickbusch refers to the Delhi meeting and statement.

Posted by Thomas Schwarz
14 June 2011

Statement by MMI at the 64th WHA on WHO reform and Global Health Governance

Posted Tue, 2011-05-24 09:46 by dgh

Thank you, Chair, for giving me the opportunity to address the distinguished members of the World Health Assembly on behalf of Medicus Mundi International, a Network of nongovernmental organizations working in the field of health cooperation and advocacy.

Statement read by PHM at the 64th WHA on future financing of WHO

Posted Sun, 2011-05-22 17:58 by Azza

We are committed to a strong World Health Organisation, adequately funded, fully utilising the powers of the Constitution and playing the leading role in global health governance. However, the current crisis could compromise WHO's capacity to play this role.

Statement by MMI and PHM read at the 64th WHA on Non Communicable Diseases

Posted Sun, 2011-05-22 17:53 by Azza

The NCDs initiative is too narrow in particular we believe it should include mental health. It is disappointing that there is no reference to the work of the CSDH in the report. Unhealthy behaviors do play an important role in determining NCDs however there are structural determinants like education, income, gender and ethnicity which are underlying causes of NCDs and behavioral risk factors. Clearly there are important equity dimension of NCDs as emphasized by CSDH and these variations are closely linked to the social and environmental factors; not just individual behaviors.

Statement read by PHM at the 64th WHA on infant and young child nutrition

Posted Sun, 2011-05-22 17:47 by Azza

Both under-nutrition and obesity are linked to the increasing dependence of poor countries on high-income countries for food security, which has been reinforced by trade agreements, climate change, and biofuels. Nutrition strategies should address the complex socioeconomic and political determinants of malnutrition. Governments and international bodies, like WHO, must advocate for the regulation of the trade and marketing of unhealthy foodstuffs, so as to protect the health of populations – and of children in particular – from aggressive corporate influence.

PHM letter to the 64th World Health Assembly

Posted Sun, 2011-05-22 17:38 by Azza

PHM is committed to a stronger WHO, adequately funded, with appropriate powers and owning the leading role in global health governance. PHM follows closely the work of WHO.  30 health activists from over 20 countries have been working through the 64th WHA Agenda with the assistance of high level experts from a number of collaborating networks and NGOs. The following comments on some of the agenda items of the 64th WHA were drafted for your kind consideration.

PHM calls upon WHO for accountability to people not dollars

Posted Sun, 2011-05-22 17:35 by Azza

Comments on ‘The future of financing for WHO’

The WHO is facing a financial crisis: programmes, projects and staffing face the prospect of being disbanded; the dominance of tied donor funding is having a terrible effect on administration. The WHO is also suffering from a crisis of identity and legitimacy; its role and mandate have been diluted and usurped by the proliferation of new actors in the field of global health. Inefficiencies within the organisational processes remain unresolved.

Time to untie the knots: the WHO reform and the need of democratizing global health

Posted Sun, 2011-05-22 12:44 by admin

Delhi Statement

May 2011

As representatives of organisations working on campaigns for health and social justice, of academia, governments and multilateral institutions, we gathered in New Delhi from 2nd to 4th May 2011, from all parts of the world, to address the need for an effective and accountable global governance for health. In the wake of the Regional Dialogue on the right to health held in Johannesburg at the end of March, the purpose of this global consultation was to achieve a common vision for realizing the human right of everyone “to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health “, and reignite a health for all movement with shared objectives and actions to this end.