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RESOLUTIONS OF THE WORLD HEALTH_, _i _illORGANIZATION_J _{_ i} 0P INTEREST TO THE_m, _, REGIONAL_, _i COMMITTEE

_.e attached resolutions adopted by the Fifteenth World Health Assembly and by the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Sessions of the Executive

Board of the World Health Organization are submitted to the consideration

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CSP16/25 (Eng.)

FIFTEENTHWORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY WHAI5.19

21 May 1962

ORIGINAL:ENGLISH

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REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT OF MALARIA ERADICATION PROGRAMME

The Fifteenth World Health Assembly,

Having considered the report of the Director-General on the development 1

of the malaria eradication programme;

Noting the satisfactory progress being made, wlth large areas in the

advanced programmes entering the consolidation phase or approaching the

achievement of eradication;

Noting further that newly developing countries are embarking on

pre-eradication programmes;

Recognizing that while it is normally necessary for a malaria eradication

programme to be implemented by a specialized service, the active participation

of the health service assumes considerable importance as the programme progresses

towards its goal, becoming fundamental in the maintenance phase when vigilance

against the re-establishment of the infection becomes the responsibility of

health services;

1. URGES governments with malaria eradication programmes in operation to

ensure active participation of the health service, particularly in the

T epidemiological activities;

2. URGES countries which have areas in the'consolidation phase and are

therefore approaching the maintenance phase, to ensure that the health services

are being adequately prepared to assume vigilance responsibilities during this

phase; and

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3. RECOMMENDS that countries which are embarking upon pre-cradication

programmes, plan the development of their health services with a view to

building up a basic infrastructure in the malarious areas to make possible

the implementation of a malaria eradication programme.

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Twenty-ninthSession EB29_RII

• 16January1962

ORIGINAL:FRENCH

DEVELOP_tENT OF THE iV_LARiA ERADICATION PROGRA_U_E

The Executive Board,

Having considered the report of the Director-General on the development of 1

malaria eradication programmes;

Noting the progress made in implementing malaria eradication programmes in

general and in achieving malaria eradication in some areas_

Having noted the demonstrated need for sound and detailed planning before

and during malaria eradication operations; and

Noting the continued need for international assistance in building up

trained national staff and basic health facilities to support future malaria

eradication programmes_

1. REQUESTS the Director-General to bring the report up to date for

presentation to the FifteenthWorld Health Assembly;

2. URGES governments undertaking malaria eradication programmes to make a

realistic stock-taking of staff_ basic health facilities, and sources of finance

which will be needed to complete a malaria eradication programme;

3- URGES governments of countries with areas in the consolidation phase and

in which consequently the i_ediate threat of malaria has decreased_ to maintain,

undiminished_ the eradication effort during this phase and to make adequate

provisions for maintenance of eradication when achieved_ suitably integrated with

the national health services of the country_

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4. URGES governments of countries which have not yet begun malaria eradication

programmes, to take suitable steps to establish necessary manpower and

administrative bases for initiating malaria eradication programmes_ and

5. REQUESTS the Director-General to make available on request such technical

advisory services and related assistance to governments as may be needed for

the establishment .of pre-eradication programmes,

Third and fourth meetingsj 16 January 1962

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1962

ORIGINAL:

ENGLISH

DEVELOPMENT

OF MALARIA

ERADICATION

PROGRAMME:

ACCELERATION

OF THE PROGRA_NME FROM

CONTINUED

VOLUNTARY

CONTRIBUTIONS

The Fifteenth World

Health

Assembly,

Bearing in mind

that the advances

in knowledge,

methodology

and

techniqr.es of malaria

eradication

operations

now enable WHO

to assist in the

solution

of technical

and operational

problems

of the eradication

of this

disease in all parts of the world,

Recognizing

that the rapid undertaking

of new malaria

eradication

programmes,

the speeding up of the projects

already under way and the

accelerated

promotion

of pre-eradication

programmes

in Africa

are of primary

importance

for shortening

the time needed

for total malaria

eradication_

Having

reviewed

the report of the Director-General I on the possible

acceleration

of the malaria

eradication

programme;

1. NOTES the report_1 and

2o

REQUESTS

the Director-General

to implement

the activities

outlined in

the report in so far as they conform to the accepted principles

of

assistance by the Organization and to the extent to which financial

resources become available in the Malaria Eradication Special Account and

suitable

staff is forthc°ming.

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FIFTEENTHWORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY WHA15.22

21 May1962

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

CONTINUED ASSISTANCE TO NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES

The Fifteenth World Health Assembly;

Having studied the report of the Director-General on continued assistance

to newly independent States, 1 including the programme for assisting such

States in developing national health plans, in accelerating the education

and training of their national staff, and the possible provision of

operational assistance to such States:

Taking into account the discussion of the Executive Board at its twen

ty-ninth session on this subject;

Cognizant of the urgent need to develop the health services of newly

independent States, which are of such significance for the health of their

people and for their socio-economic progress;

Realizing further that such development cannot be effective unless it is

integrated with the over-all development programme of these States,

1. NOTES with satisfaction the assistance being provided by WHO in developing

the health programmes of newly independent States and the emphasis placed in

the proposed programme on national health planning and on education and

training of national staff;

2. RE, JESTS the Director-General to continue to raport to the World Health

Assembly and the Executive Board on assistance to newly independent States;

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3. DECIDES that assistance to these countries should be accelerated along

the lines recommended by the Director-General in his report and, for this

purpose, approves the following programme provisions and financial arrangements;

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Programme Provisions

4. AUTHORIZES the Director-General to implement an accelerated programme

for assisting newly independent and emerging States particularly in Africa,

concentrating on:

(a) national health planning and related training;

(b) expanding and accelerating medical education and training

of national staff%

(c) providing operational assistance in accordance with the principles

set forth in paragraph 6 below_

5. REQUESTS the Director-General to study the question of WHO serving as

a co-ordinator in the provision of assistance to newly independent States

with a view primarily to assisting them in the basic training and higher

education of their national medical staff;

6. DECIDES that the principles under which _0 may provide operational

assistance shall be as follows:

(a) that the role of WHO be one of filling gaps in the maintenance

of a minumum skeleton staff essential for tiding over a critical

situation in the development of a basic health service and the raising

of health services of countries where the services are below standard.

Special emphasis should be put on the possibilities of combining this

with the efforts to train_medical and auxiliary personnel at all levels;

(b) that the Organization be satisfied that the countries are making

every effort to achieve self-sufficiency in the shortest possible time

in meeting the costs of essential medical and paramedical staff from

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(c) that such operational staff shall be placed at the disposal of

governments concerned and shall carry out their assigned duties under

the administrative control of the government concerned; •

(d) the responsibility for defraying the costs of such staff shall

be established by special agreements between WHO and each recipient

government, it being understood that the financial participation of

the government may, where necessary, be limited to an agreed contribution;

(e) that WHO operational assistance be provided either (i) by recruiting

staff in co-operation with the government concerned or (ii) by a system

of grants-in-aid for the purpose of meeting the urgent nueds of

operational staff, each grant-in-aid to be governed by the terms of

an agreement between WHO and the recipient government under which WHO

would retain adequate control commensurable with its financial investment.

II

Financial Arrangements

Recognizing that the current legislation governing the United Nations

Special Fund and the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance does not make

it possible for operational staff to be financed from those sources of funds;

Recognizing further that the resources at present available to the

Expanded Programme and the Special. Fund are limited;

Recognizing also that financing by the Organization of operational staff

as described in paragraph 6 above, even on a limited scale, is not feasible

without substantial aid from additional sources,

7. APPEALS to the General Assembly of the United Nations to arrange that

the Expanded Programme, the Special Fund an_ OPEX be given sufficient resources

with such alteration in_glisation as may be appropriate so that they can

be adequate to finance the health needs defined in Section I; and further,

pending the time when resources are available in the Special Fund, OPEX and

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8o AUTHORIZES the establishment of a Special Account for Accelerated

Assistance to Newly Independent and Emerging States to be part of the

Voluntary Fund for Health Promotion and to be governed by the provisions

of resolution WHAI3.24]

• 9 DECIDES further that the programmes defined under Section I of this

resolution may be financed from any source of funds available to the

Organization, provided that the costs in 1963, under the regular budget,

for operational staff as described in paragraph 6 above shall not exceed

$ 700 000; and

lO. REQUESTS the Director-General and the Executive Board to continue to

study methods and forms of providing effectlve assistance to newly independent

States and, in particular, to review the financial aspects of the provision

of such assistance, bearing in mind the criteria set forth in Section I of

this resolution_

ii. REQUESTS the Director-General to bring this resolution together with

his report to the attention of Members and Associate Members.

Tenth plenary meeting, 21 May 1962

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Twenty-ninthSession EB29.R32

23 January 1962

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

CONTINUED ASSISTANCE TO NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES

Having studied the report of the Director-General on continued assistance i

to newly independent States,

Recalling resolutions WHAI4.37 and WHAI4.58 of the Fourteenth World Health 2

Assembly aid resolution EB28.R22 of the Executive Board, and

Taking into account the fact that the Director-General has reported that he

has not been able to meet all the requests of the newly independent States

within the resources available to him,

i. NOTES the report of the Director-General;

2. TRANSMITS the report, together with the record of the discussion on this

item at the twenty-ninth session of the Executive Board, to the Fifteenth World

Health Assembly and, subject to the comments made in Part II below on the

question of operational assistance, fully endorses the views expressed in the

report and its conclusions;

I Long-term plans

3. REQUESTS the Director-General to provide information on the ways in which

the planning and development of health programmes - with emphasis on education

and training - of newly i_deper.dent States can be brought into li_e with the

aims and scope of the resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations

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on the United Natiors Development Decade, on the Economic Dovelopment of Africa,

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and on African Educational Development, indicating as appropriate the technical

and financial resources that need to be made available for the purpose;

4. DRAWS ATTENTION to the provision_ of resolutions

WHAI4.37

and WHA14.58 and

• reaffirms its decisions in resoluticn _28.R22;

5. CALT_ ATTENTION to the necessity for _:_0 to advise countries, at their

request, in the development of national health plans, including surveys to

determine their needs;

II Transitional arrangements

6. REQUESTS the Director-General to study the question further and to submit

a report to the Fifteenth World Heelth Assembly o_:

(a) the establishment of criteria on the extent, form and nature of the

assistance which the Organization might provide to newly _ndependent States

in the form of operational staff, bearing in mind the necessity for WH0

to maintain a balanced programn_, and the fact that operational assistance

differs from the type of assistance usually provided by the Organization;

(b) the financial provisions which would need to be made to provide

assistance under the suggested criteria, including information on the

provisions which the newly independent States themselves should make from

their own resources and the assistance the Director-General believes may

beavailable from sources other than the World Health Organization;

(c) an estimate of the length of the period of transition during which

operational staff would need to be provided, on a decreasing scale;

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7. REQUESTS the Fifteenth World Health Assembly to consider as a matter of

policy the extent, form and nature of the assistance which the Organization

might provide to newly independent States in the form of operational staff,

limited to assistance for ensuring that the level of health services which

existed at the time of independence can be maintained.

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FIFTEENTHWORLDHEALTH ASSEMBLY WHAI5.25

21 May 1962

ORIGINAL: FRENCH

ADMISSION OF NEW ASSOCIATEMEMBERS: JAMAICA

ADMITS Jamaica as an Associate Member of the World Health Organization,

subject to notice being given of acceptanc_ of associate membership on behalf

of Jamaica in accordance wlth Rules lll and ll2 of the Rules of Procedure of

the World Health Assembly.

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23 May 1962

ORIGINAL:

FRENCH

MALARIA

ERADICATION

SPECIAL

ACCOUNT

The Fifteenth World He

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lth Assembly,

Having conside

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Special

Account;

Bearing in mind the repo

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2 the malaria eradication p

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ogramme

and the decision thereon in

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esolution

WHAI5.20;

Having

noted that the contributions

received,

pledged

and expected

are

sufficient

(a)

to cover the amount required from the Special Account for the

financing of the m

a

laria eradication programme under the transitional

arrangements

laid down in resolution

WHAI4.15, 3 and

(b)

to begin in 1962 to

a

ccelerate the programme by providing additional

4 assistance

as envisaged

in the report

of the Director-General;

5 Bearing

in mind the provisions

of resolution

WHAS.30,

I. NOTES the report96

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2. THANKS the governments and other donors who have contributed to the

Malaria Eradication Special Account in cash and in kind;

3. REIT_R;.T_S its conviction that continued voluntary contributions in cash

and in kind are essential for accelerating the malaria eradication programme;

• 4. EXPRESSES its confidence that Members who are in a pcsition to do so will

contribute to the Malaria Eradication Special Account in order to make

possible a more rapid implementation of the global malaria eradication

programme; and

5. REQUESTS the Director-General to continue his efforts ss in the past for

increasing voluntary contributions to the Malaria Eradication Special Account

and to report on this matter regularly to the Health Assembly.

Eleventh plenary meeting, 23 May 1962

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19 January 1962

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MALARIA ERADICATION SPECIAL ACCOUNT

Having considered the report of the Director-General on the Malaria

Eradication Special Account;

Bearing in mind the provisions of resolution WHA14°27,1

I. NOTES the report;

2. THANKS donors _ose contributions have made it possible so far to

finance the planned malaria eradication operations;

3. REITERATES the importance of continued voluntary contributions in

order to ensure the financing of the malaria eradication field operations

under the transitional arrangements laid down by the Fourteenth World

Health Assembly;

4. EXPRESSES the hope that Members in a position to do so, and especially

the more economically developed countries, when deciding on their support

to the Special Account will take into consideration the conviction

expressed by the Fourteenth World Health Assembly in resolution WHA14.27

that voluntary contributions will also remain essential to provide

additional resources to enable more rapid and broader prosecution of the

programme;

5. REQUESTS the Director-General to continue his fund-ralsing efforts as

in the past.

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ThirtiethSession EB30.RII

29 May 1962

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

MALARIA ERADICATION SPECIAL ACCOUNT

Having considered the report of the Director-General on the Malaria 1

Eradication Special Account,

1. NOTES the report; and

2. THANKS governments and other donors for their contributions.

Second meeting, 29 May 1962 EB30/Min/2

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FIFTEENTH WORLD H_ILTH ASSEMBLY Wm15.35

23 May 1962

ORIGINAL: FRENCH

FINANCING OF THE M_/LARIA EPJ[DICATION PROGPJ_MME: CRITERIA TO BE USED IN DETERMINING ELIGIBH, ITY FOR CREDITS TOWARDS THE PAIq_NT OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Having considered the report of the Executive Board on the question

concerning the establishment of criteria for determining which Members

carrying out malaria programmes, whose per capita income is low but whose

assessments exceed 0.50 per cent., shall be eligible for credits towards the

pavement of contributions for financing the malaria field operations under

the regular budget during the period of transition from 1962 through 1964,

DECIDES that the Members to be given credits under the provisions of

resolution W HA14.15,1 paragraph 2 (1)(b), shall be those which have requested

credits and which are receiving assistance under the United Nations Expanded

Programme of Technical Assistance.

Eleventh plenary meeting, 23 May 1962 AI5/VR/II

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FIFTEENTHWOELDHEALTH ASSEMBLY WHAI5.47

2# May 1962

ORIGINAL: FRENCH

MALARIA EP_DICATION POSTAGE STf_4PS

i The Fifteenth World Health _ssemb y,

Having considered the Director-General's report on malaria 1

eradication postage stamps;

Noting with satisfaction that the issue of malaria eradication

postage stamps is appreciably contributing to increased publicity, in

this way creating a better knowledge and consciousness in the public

in relation to the malaria eradication programme, and will also

provide some financial assistance for the malaria eradication programme

for the Malaria Eradication Special Account as well as for certain

national programmes;

Considering the desirability that malaria eradication postage

stamps and related philatelic items be issued in sufficient quantities

to ensure the wide distribution which is essential for the publicity

aspects of this project,

1. NOTES wlth satisfaction the progress and the arrangements which

have been made;

2. EXPRESSES its appreciation to the large number of governments l

who are participating;

3. T_tNKS those governments who have made donations of stamps and

other philatelic material;

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4. URGES the governments, which have not yet done so, tc issue

postage stamps devoted to the malaria eradication programme as a

further demonstration of their interest in the world-wide campaign

against malaria and of their support of the efforts to participate

in "The World United Against Malaria" campaign;

5. APPEALS to the governments concerned to take the necessary

measures to publish and distribute all antimalaria postage stamps

and related philatelic items in ample quantities, in the interest

of the international character of this philatelic project;

6. EXPRESSES the hope that governments will find it possible to

donate adequate quantities of antimalaria postage stamps and all

related philatelic items to the Organization for philatelic sale,

thus also helping to increase the confidence of philatelists in

the possibility of acquiring antimalaria stamps;

7. REAFFIRMS the arrangements announced that any postage stamps

related to malaria issued after 31 December 1962 are not a part cf

the Organization's malaria eradication postage stamp plan;

8. CONGRATULITES the Director-General for his continued and

successful efforts to carry out the antimalaria postage stamp

plan in compliance with the ethical standards of such plans.

Twelfth plenary meeting, 24 May 1962

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19 January 1962

ORIGINAL:FRENCH

MALARIA ERADICATION POSTAGE STAMPS

Having considered the Director-General's progress report on the plan for

the issue of malaria eradication postage stamps from which it appears that the

majority cf the world's governments have already decided to participate;

Noting with satisfaction the publicity which this project has already begun

to bring to the malaria eradication programme and the decision of a number of

governments to donate to the Organization quantities of the proposed stamps as

well as related philatelic material or a percentage of the proceeds from the

sale of these items;

Taking cognizance of the arrangements made for the sale of stamps and other

philatelic material which may be donated to the Organization and of the Agreement

concluded for that purpose with the "Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation",

i. EXPRESSES the conviction that, because of its publicity value and as a

potential source of financial contribution to the malaria eradication programme,

the plan for the issue of malaria eradication postage stamps warrants universal

participation;

• 2. URGES governments to issue postage stamps and related philatelic material

devoted to the malaria eradication programme as a demonstration of their interest

in the problem of malaria and of their support of the efforts to free the world

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STRONGLY RECOMMENDS all participating governments, in view of the

humanitarian character of this world-wide philatelic event, to produce the

proposed stamps and related philatelic material in sufficient quantities so

as to ensure the widest distribution possible and an adequate supply for all

collectors;

4. DRAWS attention to the fact that the date of issue need not necessarily

be 7 April 1962, that any other date prior to 31 December 1962 is in order,

but that stamps relating to malaria issued after 31. December 1962 should not

be considered as part of the Organization's malaria eradication postage stamp

plan;

5. INVITES governments concerned to donate, whenever possible, quantities

of stamps and other related philatelic material to the Organization for

philatelic sale;

6. SUGGESTS again to the governments carrying out antimalaria programmes

to take advantage of this philatelic event in order to augment the funds

available for national antimalaria programmes;

7. REQUESTS the Director-General during this last preparatory stage to

pursue all possible efforts with a view to persuading those governments who

have not yet taken a positive decision to do so, and to report on the matter

to the Fifteenth World Health Assembly and thirtieth session of the Executive

Board.

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ThirtiethSession EB30.RI2

29 May 1962

• ORIGINAL:FRENCH

MALARIA ERADICATION POSTAGE STAMPS

Having considered the report of the Director-General on Malaria Eradi-1

cation Postage Stamps,

1. NOTES the report;

2. EXPRESSES its appreciation to the governments participating in this

project; and

3. THANKS those governments who made donations.

Second meeting, 29 May 1962 EB30/Min/2

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FIFTEENTHWORLD HEf_TH ASSemBLY WHAle.53

25 May 1962

ORIGINal: ENGLISH

S_LqLLPOX EP_DICAT ION PROGPJ_M_

Having considered the report of the Director-General on Smallpox i

Eradication;

Noting that the progress made since the Eleventh World Health Assembly in

1958 took the decision to initiate a world-wide eradication programme has

been slow;

Recognizing that countries in the endemic areas are meeting difficulties

in organizing country-wide campaigns due to insufficient funds and health

persomuel, inadequacy of transport, vaccine and equipment;

Reiterating that the persistence of the disease causes a high morbidity

and mortality in the endemic areas and exposes the rest of the world to risk

from importation of infection,

i. EMP_°_SIZES the urgency of achieving eradication_

2. COM_NDS the efforts already made in those countries which are

implementing eradication campaigns;

3. URGES the health administrations of those endemic countries which have not

already done so to plan and imolement country-wide eradication campaigns with

stable potent vaccine, in concertwith their n_ighbours_

&. INVITES countries able to do so to make voluntary contributions in cash or

in kind of such essential requirements as freeze-dried vaccines, suitable

transport and necessary laboratory and cold-storage equipment, for distribution

by the Organization to countries in the endemic areas with sound eradication

programmes requesting such assistanco_ and

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5. REQUESTS the Director-General:

(a) to continue to offer advice and technical guidance to the

• countriesconcerned_

(b) to provide for necessary activities and material assistance

in his programme and budget estimates for future years;

(c) to prepare with the aid of national governments their

requirements and firm estimates of costs for their smallpox

eradication programmes% and

(d) to report further to the Sixteenth World Health Assembly

on the progress of the eradication programme.

Thirteenth plenary meeting, 25 May 1962

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FIFTEENTHWORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY NHAIS.%4

25 May 1962

ORIGINf_ : ENGLISH

DEVELOPMENTS IN ACTIVITIES ASSISTED JOINTLY WITH UNICEF

Having considered the report of the Director-General on Developments in 1

Activities assisted jointly with UNICEF;

Recognizing the invaluable contribution that _ICEF is making towards the

success of the health programmes for mothers and children$

1. NOTES the Report of the Director-General_

2. EXPRESSES to the UNICEF Executive Board its appreciation of its decision

to maintain the$ 10 million per year ceiling for allocations for malaria

programmes_

3. EXPRESSES the hope that in view of the deleterious impact that smallpox

has on the health of mothers and children, UNICEF will find it possible to

give full support to the smallpox eradication programme being sponsored by the

World Health Organization;

4. BELIEVES that nutritional oroblems should always be considered in the

context of all other aspects of health which are so intimately related to

them_ and therefore

5. RECO_MENDS that activities dealing with the medical aspects of nutrition

be as fully integrated as possible with other health activities, particularly

health education, environmental sanitation and the control of communicable

diseases as well as with maternal and child and school he__Ith services_ an_

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6o EXPRESSES its satisfaction with the close and efficient co-operation

between the two organizations in assisting countries in combating

communicable diseases, promoting higher standards of nutrition and

environmental sanitation, the training of national staff as well as in the

more specific promotion of maternal and child health.

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FIFTEENTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEM/_LY WHAI5.56

25 May 1962

ORIGIi_AL' ]I,GLIS_'-I

DECISIONS OF T}E _'TI'I'E:3NATIONS, SPLC!ALIgED ,_G_/ICIES_/_D THE. iN_ERNAT!ONAL ATOMIC _NERGY AGENCY AFFECTING UHO's

ACT_TITIES : WORLD FOOD PROGRAI6MZ

Having considered the r_port of the Dmrector-.General cA tree World N,_I i

Programme ;

Recognizing the iotimm[e inter-relationships between the health status

and nutrition standard_ of _ndividuals_

Cogniza/%t of the co-operation between the World Health Orgar_izat_on and

the Food and AgrScu.].tare Organization of the United Nations in the field of nutriti on,

i_ EXPRESSES its _aCisfact_on with the incre-_sino_ public consciousness

about the proolem of hunger iL the world;

2. SUPPORTS the initiative taken by the Unitea Nations and the Food _nd

Agriculture Organization in t_king remedial action to solve this problem:

3. CONSIDERS that such a programme should also lead to an intensification

of the assistance to promote the bea!tn and working cap_-c_ty of the ru_al

populations of developing countries, while raising their nutritional status,

income and standards of living generally;

4. DBAWS ATTENTION to the role played by endemic diseases in aggravating

malnutrition in and sapping the vitality of agricultural commuvitles; _n6

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5. RECOMMENDS that Member States request, if they deem it appropriate,

the assistance of WHO in:

(i) carrying out basic nutrition surveys to assess the nutritional

status of the population;

(2) establishing or strengthening of national nutrition services;

(3) the development of food distribution and utilization services,

supported by health education and environmental health measures; and°

(4) the education and training of staff in this field; and

6. REQUESTS the Director-General to give assistance to requesting Member

States to the extent that funds are available for this purpose.

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FIFTEENTHWORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY WHA!5.57

25 May 1962

ORIGINAL: SPANISH

a DECISIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS, SPECIALIZED AGENCIES

AND THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY AFFECTING WHO 's ACTIVITIES : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT DECADE

Considering the resolution of the General Assembly of the United

Nations, A/1710 (XVI), which designated the current decade as the

United Nations Development Decade in which Member States would intensify

their efforts to accelerate progress and the growth of the economic and

the social advancement;

Cognizant of the profound effect health standards of families,

communities and nations have on their social advancement and economic

progress, particularly in the developing areas of the world;

Aware of the benefits accruing to health from the accelerated

national programmes for general socio-economic development;

Having studied the report of the Director-General I and, in

particular, the health programme for the Development Decade he has

forwarded to the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the

request of the latter;

Taking into account the views expressed by the Executive Board

at its twenty-ninth session,

i. EXPRESSES its appreciation to the General Assembly of the

United Nations for its decision to establish the Development Decade

with a view to, inter alia, "accelerating the elimination of

illiter_cy, hunger and disease, which seriously affect the

productivity of the people of the less developed countries";

.

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2. ENDORSES the Executive Board's recommendation that, in so far

as the health aspects of accelerated economic and social development

are concerned, governments participate in these programmes, with the

assistance of the World Health Organization, if they so wish, by

undertaking a ten-year public health programme with the objectives

to raise the s_andards of the health of the peoples, such as:

(i) the preparation of national plans for the development

of public health programmes for the Decade, co-ordinat_ing

these programmes with other related plans in the social and

economic fields;

(2) to concentrate on the education and training of

professional and auxiliary staff for strengthening their

health services, with specific measurable targets for

expanding each category of staff, depending on

pre-determined needs for each;

(3) to establish as baselines certain indices of their

current health situation wherefrom to gauge the degree of

realization of certain goals, pre-determined as target

figures for the Decade;

(4) to devote increased national resources to the control

.of disease and the improvement of health;

3. CALLS attention of Member States to the proposals made and the

quantitative targets set by the Director-General for s.health programme

for the Development Decade, as outlined in his report, amplifying the

above-listed health objectives;

4. CONSIDERS that, in developing countries, the creation of a

network of minimum basic health services must be regarded as an

essential pre-investment operation, without which agricultural and

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5. REQUESTS the Director-General to circulate his report to

Member States, together with this resolution;

6. RECOMMENDS that Member States study the proposals and targets

outlined in the Director-General's report and adopt them in their

programmes for the Development Decade to the extent that they deem

fit, requesting, _f necessary, the assistance of the World Health

Organization for this purpose;

7. URGES donor countries, Which are in a position to provide

assistance to developing countries, to increase the level of

financial, technical and material assistance provided in the field

of health, in order to expedite economic and social progress;

8. REQUESTS the Director-General to transmit this resolution to

the Secretary-General of the United Nations with the request to

present it to the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council,

the Technical Assistance Committee and the Governing Council of the

Special Fund;

9. REQUESTS the Director-General to continue to co-operate with

the United Nations and other agencies in the implementation of the

United Nations Development Decade.

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ThirtiethSession EB30.R23

30 May 1962

• ORIGINAL:ENGLISHAND

FRENCH

DECENTRALIZATION OF THE [_NITED NATIONS ACTIVITIES

1 Recalling the Executive Board resolution EB29.R45,

Having considered the report on Decentralization of the United 2

Nations Activities_

1. NOTES the report;

2. CONSIDERS that the Organization should take all possible steps to

ensure that the health aspects of national development are taken into

account by Member States and by the international sources of assistance

available to them;

3. REQUESTS the Director-General to continue to study methods of

collaboration with the Regional Economic Commissions of the United

Nations on the lines he has indicated in his report; and

4. REQUESTS the Director-General to report on developments to the

Executive Board at its thirty-first session.

. Fourth meeting, 30 May 1962

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