Delegates to the global decision-making body will tackle ways to strengthen emergency response and restructure the agency.
GENEVA (AN) — Congo's spreading Ebola outbreak, universal health coverage and questions about spending and reform topped the World Health Assembly's agenda as its eight-day annual meeting got underway.
Delegates to the World Health Organization's decision-making body on Monday were asked to strengthen the U.N. health agency's response to the outbreak, which has steadily worsened since an expert panel last month advised it was not yet an international public health emergency.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
With the Earth growing hotter and the oceans becoming warmer, rising sea levels threaten islands and coastal areas.
The U.N. health agency's US$135 million mpox plan covers mainly 'international support to national mpox responses.'
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia depends on Russia to meet its energy needs and China to buy its exports.
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts for people in Yemen (US$20 million) and Ethiopia (US$15 million).
