Geneva, 21 May 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – As the world faces ongoing well being and humanitarian emergencies, the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly (WHA), which is able to happen from 21-30 May, opened immediately on the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Discussions will deal with the sustainable financing of the World Health Organization (WHO) because it reaches its 75^th anniversary, in addition to the important position of the Organization within the Global Health Emergency Architecture. 

“As we mark WHO’s 75th anniversary, we can be proud of our past achievements, but we must be mindful of lessons learned, as we transition from the emergency phase of COVID-19 and create a future where every person has access to the health services they need,” WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated. “This means strengthening the worldwide structure for well being emergency preparedness, response and resilience, supporting nations on the highway to common well being protection, and constructing a stronger, sustainably funded and accountable WHO.”

Discussions on the WHA will deal with strengthening preparedness and response to well being emergencies, in addition to areas together with ladies’s, youngsters’s, and adolescents’ well being; common well being protection and first well being care; conventional drugs; an infection prevention and management; migrant well being; non-communicable ailments; and psychological well being.

The WHO Programme Budget for 2024-2025 will even be authorised, together with the choice to extend assessed contributions. 

The WHA kicked off with the fourth version of the Walk the Talk: Health for All problem to advertise bodily and psychological well being, and to have fun the significance of partnership throughout WHO’s 75^th anniversary.

The meeting is open to registered and accredited Member States, Associate Members, Observers, invited representatives of the UN and different collaborating inter-governmental organizations and non-State actors, however will also be followed live online.