Ways and Means of Implementing Resolutions of Regional Interest Adopted by the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board: Report of the Regional Director
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WHO. Regional Office for Africa
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Regional Committee for Africa Fifty-third SessionJohannesburg, South Africa, 1–5 September 2003, Provisional agenda item 7.1
The Fifty-sixth World Health Assembly and the 111th Executive Board adopted resolutions oncertain issues of regional interest as set out below:(a) WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHA56.1)(b) International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata: twenty-fifth anniversary(WHA56.6)(c) Real Estate Fund: Regional Office for Africa (WHA56.14)(d) Human resources: gender balance (WHA56.17)(e) Reducing global measles mortality (WHA56.20)(f) Strategy for child and adolescent health and development (WHA56.21)(g) Implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health (WHA56.24)(h) The role of contractual arrangements in improving health systems performance (WHA56.25)(i) Elimination of avoidable blindness (WHA56.26)(j) Intellectual property rights, innovation and public health (WHA56.27)(k) Traditional medicine (WHA56.31)2. The ways and means of implementing these resolutions of regional interest have been set out forconsideration by the Regional Committee. The report contains only the relevant operative paragraphsthat appear in the resolutions concerned. Each resolution is followed by the measures already taken orplanned to be taken.3. The Committee is invited to examine and comment on the proposed strategies for implementing theresolutions of interest to the African Region and to provide guidance for their implementation.
The Fifty-sixth World Health Assembly and the 111th Executive Board adopted resolutions oncertain issues of regional interest as set out below:(a) WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHA56.1)(b) International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata: twenty-fifth anniversary(WHA56.6)(c) Real Estate Fund: Regional Office for Africa (WHA56.14)(d) Human resources: gender balance (WHA56.17)(e) Reducing global measles mortality (WHA56.20)(f) Strategy for child and adolescent health and development (WHA56.21)(g) Implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health (WHA56.24)(h) The role of contractual arrangements in improving health systems performance (WHA56.25)(i) Elimination of avoidable blindness (WHA56.26)(j) Intellectual property rights, innovation and public health (WHA56.27)(k) Traditional medicine (WHA56.31)2. The ways and means of implementing these resolutions of regional interest have been set out forconsideration by the Regional Committee. The report contains only the relevant operative paragraphsthat appear in the resolutions concerned. Each resolution is followed by the measures already taken orplanned to be taken.3. The Committee is invited to examine and comment on the proposed strategies for implementing theresolutions of interest to the African Region and to provide guidance for their implementation.