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WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD TO MEET IN GENEVA
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WHAT ?: |
109th Session of the World Health
Organization’s (WHO’s) Executive Board |
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WHO’s Executive Board consists of 32 members, nominated by 32 of WHO’s
Member States on a rotating basis and maintaining balanced
geographical distribution. The Executive Board is the active oversight
organ of the work of the WHO Secretariat, reviewing the Secretariat’s
work and reporting to the Organization’s highest governing body, the
World Health Assembly.
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| WHEN? |
14-21 January 2002
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| WHERE? |
WHO Headquarters,
Geneva (Switzerland)
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| AGENDA: |
The main technical topics of discussion
include infant and young child
feeding, WHO’s medicines strategy, food safety, the
retention or destruction of smallpox virus stocks, the
deliberate use of biological and chemical agents to cause
harm, WHO’s involvement in public-private interactions for
health, and contractual arrangements in improving health
systems performance.
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For accreditations, journalists can contact: Ms
Lorna Wieteska, Office of the WHO Press Spokesperson, more
information, Tel:(+ 41 22) 791 2599, Fax (+41 22) 791 4858, E-mail: wieteskaa@who.int;
for more technical information, journalists can contact: Gregory Hartl,
WHO Press Spokesperson, Tel:(+ 41 22) 791 4458, mobile phone (+41 79)
203 6715, E-mail: hartlg@who.int |
