WHO Aims To Broaden Dialogue With Civil Society

Health Policy Watch "The World Health Organization is exploring ways to expand relationships with non-governmental organizations, including broader collaborations on key global health priorities and a possible informal consultation with civil society every year, Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus told WHO’s Executive Board today.

(...) “We would like to express our concerns about the repeated statement from the DG that FENSA is not a fence and that WHO is moving from risk aversion to risk management,” MMI said in a statement to the EB. “We thus call up the Secretariat to rigorously implement Para 13 of FENSA, i.e., to identify through due diligence whether a NSA is subject to the influence of private sector entities.” (Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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