World Health Assembly Approves Resolutions, Frameworks

Media outlets recap recent releases from the World Health Assembly, which was held in Geneva this past week.

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Hepatitis resolution passed by 67th World Health Assembly includes calls for increased access to new medicine, syringe exchange
Antigone Barton, writer and editor of “Science Speaks” and senior communications officer at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses the announcement of the World Health Assembly’s approval of a resolution to improve efforts to address hepatitis, and global coordination around noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) (5/22).

WHO: World Health Assembly approves monitoring framework for maternal and child nutrition
“At the World Health Assembly Wednesday, Member States approved a global monitoring framework on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition…” (5/21).

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