11 October 2024, Doha, Qatar ‒ The Seventy-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Japanese Mediterranean can be held in Doha, Qatar from 14 to 17 October 2024 below the theme well being past borders: motion, entry, fairness.
Ministers of well being and high-level representatives of the 22 Member States and territories of WHO’s Japanese Mediterranean Area, and representatives of accomplice organizations and civil society, will meet to debate precedence public well being points.
WHO Director-Common Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Regional Director for the Japanese Mediterranean Dr Hanan Balkhy and chair of the seventieth session of the Regional Committee and Minister of Well being and Human Companies of Somalia H.E. Dr Ali Haji Adam Abubakar will tackle the opening session. It would even be attended by Qatar’s Minister of Public Well being H.E. Dr Hanan Al-Kuwari.
Throughout the session, Dr Balkhy will current her regional imaginative and prescient for the endorsement of Member States. The imaginative and prescient, which goals to safe one of the best attainable stage of well being for everybody within the area, contains 3 flagship initiatives: on increasing well timed and equitable entry to life-saving medicines and vaccines; constructing a extra resilient well being workforce, and decreasing the morbidity, mortality and social prices related to substance use issues.
“The place to begin to attain our objectives is to give attention to the three flagship initiatives that may function accelerators for the regional imaginative and prescient and its strategic operational plan, which in flip is predicated on the WHO’s Fourteenth Common Programme of Work (GPW14),” mentioned Dr Balkhy.
The Regional Strategic Operational Plan describes what WHO goals to attain within the coming 4 years in response to nation priorities, and the way it will do it. Just like the GPW14, it has a robust accountability framework.
The Regional Committee may also embody discussions of precedence public well being points, technical papers, updates and a variety of panel discussions and aspect occasions.
The technical papers that can be offered cowl matters from antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and well being info methods (HISs) to addressing the burden of trauma in humanitarian settings and scaling up psychological well being and psychosocial help in emergencies.
AMR is a serious international well being downside. The Japanese Mediterranean Area has the best – and quickest rising – fee of antibiotic use of any WHO area. Antimicrobial mis- and overuse fuels the event and unfold of drug-resistant infections and is a serious menace to human and animal well being.
The Japanese Mediterranean can also be going through an elevated trauma burden, a results of a number of crises besetting the Area. The efficient administration of trauma requires a functioning trauma care pathway embedded inside a complete system of emergency, essential and operative care companies, but in lots of humanitarian settings already-fragile well being methods have been severely weakened and broken, proscribing the capability of well being employees to supply important well being companies.
The technical paper on HISs units out a brand new regional technique to boost and digitalize nationwide info methods. It goals to make sure that nations generate high-quality, well timed, related, disaggregated and dependable information to tell insurance policies and programmes and to watch progress in the direction of the health-related Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs). The Regional Committee can be invited to endorse the proposed technique.
Psychological well being accounts for five.1% of the worldwide burden of illness and 5.4% of the illness burden within the Area. A technical paper presenting a regional motion plan for psychological well being and psychosocial help in emergencies, overlaying the interval 2024-2030, can be reviewed through the Regional Committee earlier than the plan is offered to members for endorsement.
Among the many many panel discussions, panelists will tackle methods to nurture the alternatives and mitigate the dangers of utilizing synthetic intelligence to assist construct common well being protection and well being safety throughout the Area.
WHO’s Japanese Mediterranean Area is residence to nearly 700 million folks. It contains among the world’s highest earnings nations alongside fragile, conflict-affected states. RC71 is convening in very difficult circumstances, with new fronts of battle opening.
Individuals will obtain an replace on the well being and humanitarian state of affairs within the occupied Palestinian territory. Within the Gaza Strip, a complete inhabitants has been lower off from sustained assist, and polio has resurfaced after 25 years, paralyzing an unvaccinated 10-month-old boy. In September, Ministry of Well being with WHO and companions was in a position to vaccinate round 560 000 youngsters below ten years through the first spherical of a vaccination marketing campaign to cease the polio outbreak and stop its worldwide unfold, that was made doable by adherence to humanitarian pauses by all events and an enthusiastic response from households in Gaza. There have been an estimated 40 600 deaths to date, most of them ladies and youngsters, and the toll is rising on a regular basis. Civilian areas and well being care have come below sustained assault and the specter of illness outbreaks grows day by day.
Within the phrases of Dr Balkhy: “Ongoing emergencies have left over 100 million folks in want of humanitarian help, together with for well being. Solely a sturdy ceasefire will give households within the Gaza Strip the possibility to heal and rebuild their lives.”
Ministers of Well being and different contributors may also obtain updates on the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Physique (INB), polio eradication within the Japanese Mediterranean Area, progress on the strategic framework for blood security and availability 2016–2025, the regional technique to enhance entry to medicines and vaccines within the Japanese Mediterranean Area 2020–2030, constructing resilient well being methods to advance common well being protection within the Japanese Mediterranean Area, shifting from idea to motion to attain the health-related Sustainable Improvement Objectives.
Be aware to editors
The work of WHO on the regional stage is ruled by regional committees. The Regional Committee for the Japanese Mediterranean convenes yearly in October and is attended by all nations of the Area. It formulates insurance policies, offers oversight for regional programmes, revises and endorses new initiatives and adopts resolutions that information the work of the Regional Workplace and nation workplaces for the subsequent yr.
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