PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
20th DIRECTING COUNCIL
23rd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 27 September – 8 October 1971
RESOLUTION
CD20.R18
PAHO TEXTBOOK PROGRAM
THE 20th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Bearing in mind the interest of the Governments in the PAHO textbook program;
Having learned with satisfaction of the favorable development of the program described in the
report of the Director (Document CD20/5),1 Annex 7, PAHO Official Document 115 (1972) and
the approval of the loan for the program made to the Pan American Health and Education
Foundation (PAHEF) by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the purpose of
undertaking a joint PAHO/PAHEF program in accord with the plan approved by the XVIII Pan
American Sanitary Conference in Resolution XXIX; and
Considering the efforts the Organization has made over the years to obtain adequate long-term
financing for this program,
RESOLVES
1. To take note of the report of the Director on the textbook program (Document CD20/5).
2. To congratulate the Director on the way in which the program has been conducted and on
3. To thank the Inter-American Development Bank for approving the loan to finance this important
program.
4. To thank the Pan American Health and Education Foundation for its cooperation with the Pan
American Health Organization in the textbook program.
Sept–Oct 1971 OD 111, 60