WHO & Regionals [to 31 January 2015]
:: 136th WHO Executive Board session
26 January–3 February 2015
Geneva, Switzerland

Documentation
– Provisional agenda
– Main documents

Resolutions to 31 January 2015
– EB136.R1 – Global technical strategy and targets for malaria 2016–2030
– EB136.R2 – Appointment of the Regional Director for Africa
– EB136.R3 – Expression of appreciation to Dr Luis Gomes Sambo
– EB136.R4 – Appointment of the Regional Director for Europe
– EB136.R5 – Yellow fever risk mapping and recommended vaccination for travellers
– EB136.R6 – The recommendations of the review committee on second extensions for establishing national public health capacities and on IHR implementation
– EB136.R7 – Strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anaesthesia as a component of universal health coverage

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:: Global Alert and Response (GAR): Disease Outbreak News (DONs)
– Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – China 27 January 2015

:: The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) 30 January 2015, vol. 90, 5 (pp. 25–32) includes:
– Schistosomiasis: number of people treated worldwide in 2013

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WHO Regional Offices

WHO African Region AFRO
Press Releases
:: WHO Executive Board appoints Dr Matshidiso Moeti as new Regional Director for Africa
GENEVA, 27 January 2015 — The WHO Executive Board, currently holding its 136th session, has appointed Dr Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti as the new Regional Director for WHO’s Africa Region. Dr Moeti was nominated Regional Director by the health ministers of the 47 Member States of the WHO African Region at the annual Regional Committee for Africa in Cotonou, Benin, in November 2014. Dr Moeti will take up her appointment for a five-year term on 1 February 2015, succeeding Dr Luis Gomes Sambo who has served as Regional Director for the past 10 years…
:: “Intensify surveillance” to beat Ebola says Dr Moeti – 27 January 2015
:: Learn from the past to build better for the future – 26 January 2015

WHO Region of the Americas PAHO
:: Canada reports the Americas’ first case of avian influenza A (H7N9) in humans (01/28/2015)

WHO South-East Asia Region SEARO
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WHO European Region EURO
:: Zsuzsanna Jakab appointed WHO Regional Director for Europe for second term 27-01-2015

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region EMRO
:: Devastating Middle East polio outbreak on verge of being stopped, say experts 27 January 2015

WHO Western Pacific Region
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