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EB148(9)

EB148
EB148(9) WHO reform: governance 1
The Executive Board, having considered the report by the Director-General on WHO reform: governance, 2 decided to recommend to the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly the adoption of the following decision:
( Eleventh meeting, 23 January 2021)
EB148
The Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly,  having considered the report by the Director-General on WHO reform: governance, decided:
(1)
to sunset reporting on the following resolutions on the understanding that the mandates have been completed or superseded by a new mandate on the same subject matter:
1.
EB87.R23 (1991) – WHO fellowships;
2.
WHA23.14 (1970) – Real Estate Fund;
3.
WHA35.14 (1982) – Policy on patents;
4.
WHA38.8 (1985) – Review of the Working Capital Fund;
5.
WHA40.24 (1987) – Effects of nuclear war on health and health services;
6.
WHA40.32 (1987) – Use of alcohol in medicines;
7.
WHA44.5 (1991) – Eradication of dracunculiasis;
8.
WHA44.27 (1991) – Health development in urban areas;
9.
WHA44.36 (1991) – International programme on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident;
10.
WHA47.32 (1994) – Onchocerciasis control through ivermectin distribution;
11.
WHA48.9 (1995) – Prevention of hearing impairment;
12.
WHA48.13 (1995) – Communicable diseases prevention and control: new, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases;
13.
WHA49.20 (1996) – Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations: orientation of WHO policy in support of African recovery and development;
14.
WHA50.13 (1997) – Promotion of chemical safety, with special attention to persistent organic pollutants;
15.
WHA50.29 (1997) – Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem;
16.
WHA51.13 (1998) – Tuberculosis;
17.
WHA51.15 (1998) – Elimination of leprosy as a public health problem;
18.
WHA54.19 (2001) – Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections;
19.
WHA55.8 (2002) – Real Estate Fund;
20.
WHA56.19 (2003) – Prevention and control of influenza pandemics and annual epidemics;
21.
WHA58.27 (2005) – Improving the containment of antimicrobial resistance;
22.
WHA60.22 (2007) – Health systems: emergency-care systems;
23.
WHA63.15 (2010) – Monitoring of the achievement of the health‑related Millennium Development Goals;
24.
WHA65.21 (2012) – Elimination of schistosomiasis;
25.
WHA66.24 (2013) – eHealth standardization and interoperability;
26.
WHA67.14 (2014) – Health in the post-2015 development agenda;
(2)
to sunset reporting on the following resolutions on the understanding that the subject matter will be systematically incorporated into future reports on a related subject matter:
27.
WHA37.18 (1984) – Prevention and control of vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia;
28.
WHA42.40 (1989) – Prevention and control of salmonellosis;
29.
WHA44.42 (1991) – Women, health and development;
30.
WHA45.22 (1992) – Child health and development: health of the newborn;
31.
WHA48.12 (1995) – Control of diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections: integrated management of the sick child;
32.
WHA50.16 (1997) – Employment and participation of women in the work of WHO;
33.
WHA54.18 (2001) – Transparency in tobacco control;
34.
WHA58.22 (2005) – Cancer prevention and control;
35.
WHA58.29 (2005) – Enhancement of laboratory biosafety;
36.
WHA58.31 (2005) – Working towards universal coverage of maternal, newborn and child health interventions;
37.
WHA60.16 (2007) – Progress in the rational use of medicines;
38.
WHA60.20 (2007) – Better medicines for children;
39.
WHA60.21 (2007) – Sustaining the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders;
40.
WHA60.27 (2007) – Strengthening of health information systems;
41.
WHA61.16 (2008) – Female genital mutilation;
42.
WHA64.6 (2011) – Health workforce strengthening;
43.
WHA64.7 (2011) – Strengthening nursing and midwifery;
44.
WHA64.9 (2011) – Sustainable health financing structures and universal coverage;
45.
WHA64.28 (2011) – Youth and health risks;
46.
WHA65.20 (2012) – WHO's response, and role as the health cluster lead, in meeting the growing demands of health in humanitarian emergencies;
47.
WHA67.4 (2014) – Supplementary funding for real estate and longer‑term staff liabilities;
(3)
to specify end dates for reporting on 10 resolutions with unspecified reporting requirements: 3
1.
WHA63.12 (2010) – Availability, safety and quality of blood products;
2.
WHA63.22 (2010) – Human organ and tissue transplantation;
3.
WHA67.1 (2014) – Global strategy and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015;
4.
WHA67.18 (2014) – Traditional medicine;
5.
WHA68.2 (2015) – Global technical strategy and targets for malaria 2016–2030;
6.
WHA68.19 (2015) – Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition;
7.
WHA69.2 (2016) – Committing to implementation of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health;
8.
WHA69.24 (2016) – Strengthening integrated, people-centred health services;
9.
WHA70.6 (2017) – Human resources for health and implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations' High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth;
10.
WHA70.13 (2017)  – Prevention of deafness and hearing loss
See Annex 5 for the financial and administrative implications for the Secretariat of this decision.
Document EB148/33.
Proposed end dates for reporting on the 10 resolutions are indicated in Annex 4.
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