WHA50

May 1997
Geneva

A50/1 - Provisional agenda and Rev.1 below

WHA50/1997/REC/1 - Fiftieth World Health Assembly, Geneva, 11-16 May 1997: resolutions and decisions, annexes 

WHA50/1997/REC/3 - Fifty-first World Health Assembly, Geneva, 11-16 May 1997: summary records of committees and ministerial round tables; reports of committees (large file, downloads as a PDF)

Agenda

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Adoption of the agenda and allocation of items to the main committees
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A51/1 Rev.1
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Review and approval of the reports of the Executive Board on its ninety-eighth and ninety-ninth session
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A50/2
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Review of The world health report 1997 (incorporating the Director-General's report on The Work of WHO, Rule 5(a) and decision EB93(6))
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A50/3: The World health report 1997: conquering suffering, enriching humanity: summary
The World health report : 1997 : Conquering suffering, enriching humanity / report of the Director-General 
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Opening of Committee A
17
Proposed programme budget for the financial period 1998-1999
17.1
General review
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EB99.R14: WHO collaborating centres 
PB/98-99
EB99/INF.DOC./1: Proposed programme budget for the financial period 1998-1999: additional budgetary tables 
A50/4: Report of the Executive Board to the World Health Assembly on the proposed programme budget for the financial period 1998-1999 and response by the Director-General
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Action
WHA50.2 WHO collaborating centres
WHA50.26 Programme budget for the 1998-1999 biennium: reallocation to priority health programmes of amounts resulting from measures to increase efficiency
17.2
Financial review
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EB99.R2: Financing of the WHO worldwide management information system through the use of casual income 
A50/4 Report of the EB to the WHA on the proposed PB for 1998-1999 and response by the DG
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Preparation of the Tenth General Programme of Work
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EB99.R15: WHO reform: linking the renewed health-for-all strategy with the tenth general programme of work, programme budgeting and evaluation 
A50/5 Preparation of the tenth general programme of work: report by the Director-General 
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Action
WHA50.28: WHO reform: linking the renewed health-for-all strategy with the Tenth General Programme of Work, programme budgeting and evaluation
WHA50.25: Appropriation resolution for the financial period 1998-1999
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Implementation of resolutions and decisions (progress reports by the Director-General)
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A50/6 (and corr): Implementation of resolutions and decisions: report by the Director-General
A50/INF.DOC./4: Prevention of violence (resolution WHA49.25)
A50/INF.DOC./3: Guidelines on the WHO Certification Scheme on the Quality of Pharmaceutical Products moving in International Commerce (resolution WHA22.50)
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Action
WHA50.19 Prevention of violence
WHA50.3 Guidelines on the WHO Certification Scheme on the Quality of Pharmaceutical Products moving in International Commerce
WHA50.4 Cross-border advertising, promotion and sale of medical products using the Internet
WHA50.20 Quality of biological products moving in international commerce
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Control of tropical diseases
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A50/7
EB99.R17: Lymphatic filariasis
EB99.R18: Control of tropical diseases: malaria prevention and control
EB99.R19: Control of tropical diseases: eradication of dracunculiasis 
EB99.R20: African trypanosomiasis
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WHA50.29 Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem
WHA50.34 Malaria prevention and control
WHA50.35: Eradication of dracunculiasis
WHA50.36 African trypanosomiasis
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Opening of Committee B
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Financial matters
22.1
Interim financial report on the accounts o f WHO for 1996 and comments thereon of the PBAC; External Auditor's report on his work
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EB99.R5: Transfer of funds to voluntary fund for health promotion: special account for disasters and natural catastrophes
A50/8 & A50/8 Add.l: Interim financial report for the year 1996 
A50/22: Interim financial report on the accounts of WHO for 1996
A50/23: Interim report of the External Auditor: comments of the Director-General
A50/24: Interim financial report for the year 1996: first report of the PBAC
22.3
Report on casual income
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A50/11 Report on casual income: report by the Director-General
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WHA50.24 Financing of the WHO worldwide management information system through the use of casual income
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WHO Reform
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WHA49.23: WHO reform and response to global change: progress report on reform (‎Personnel policy)‎ 
26.1
Renewing the health-for-all strategy, including report of the task force on health in development
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EB99.R8: Report of the Task Force on Health in Development 
EB99.R15: WHO reform: linking the renewed health-for-all strategy with the tenth general programme of work, programme budgeting and evaluation 
A50/14: Renewal the health-for-all strategy: progress report by the Director-General 
A50/15: Task Force on Health in Development: highlights of the fifth meeting: Geneva, 18 and 19 November 1996 
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Action
WHA50.23 Report of the task force on health in development
WHA50.28 WHO reform: linking the renewed health-for-all strategy with the Tenth General Programme of Work, programme budgeting and evaluation
26.2
The world health report 1998 and third evaluation of progress in implementation of the global strategy for health for all by the year 200
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EB99(4): Preparation of WHR98 & 3rd evaluation of progress in implementation of the Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000
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Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations
27.1
General matters
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A50/16 & A50/16 Add.l:
A50/INF.DOC./2: Request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice 
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WHA50.12 Establishment of the International Vaccine Institute
WHA50.21: World TB Day
27.2
Environmental matters: UN Conf on Envt & Devt; persistent organic pollutants; protection of marine environment
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A50/17: Environmental matters: report by the Director-General 
EB99.R25: Promotion of chemical safety, with special attention to persistent organic pollutants
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Action
WHA50.13 Promotion of chemical safety, with special attention to persistent organic pollutants
WHA50.14: Protection of the marine environment
27.3
Health assistance to specific countries
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A50/18
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Health conditions of, and assistance to, the Arab population in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine
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A50/19
A50/INF.DOC./5
A50/INF.DOC./6
A50/INF.DOC./7
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Personnel matters
29.1
Recruitment of international staff in WHO
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EB99.R9: Geographical representation
EB99.R10: Employment and participation o f women in the work of WHO
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Method of work of the Health Assembly
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EB99.R28:
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WHA50.18 Method of work of the Health Assembly and amendments to its Rules of Procedure
Supplementary item
Cloning in human reproduction