Events 2008

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• Action plan for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
  28 May 2008
  Cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes the leading threats to human health
• Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property
  28 May 2008
• Strategies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol
  28 May 2008
  61st World Health Assembly adopts resolution on developing a global strategy
• HIV/TB Global Leaders Forum
  9 June 2008
• Pacific Health Summit
  18 June 2008
• European ministerial conference on health systems
  25 June 2008
• Second meeting of the Infection Control Network
  27 June 2008
• Codex Alimentarius Commission, 31st session
  4 July 2008
• Annual meetings of WHO Regional Committees
  31 July 2008
  WHO Regional Committees met in 2008 to set policy and approve budgets and programmes of work for each of the six WHO regions.
• XVII International AIDS Conference
  3 August 2008
• First Inter-Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa
  26 August 2008
• International Conference Dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care
  15 October 2008
• WHO Congress on Traditional Medicine
  7 November 2008
• 5th meeting of WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
  15 November 2008
• 2nd meeting of the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group
  17 November 2008
• Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health
  19 November 2008
• WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
  22 November 2008
• WHO event on climate change and health at UNFCCC conference
  12 December 2008