Photo highlights from RC69: Day 4 - Thursday 19 September 2019
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Ms Outi Kuivasniemi, Deputy Director for International Affairs at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland, in her function as liaison with the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee, briefed the Committee on technical resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly.
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Regarding tuberculosis (TB), delegates stressed the need for effective preventive strategies, and the importance of targeting vulnerable groups and adopting innovative approaches with digital health technologies. Dr Masoud Dara, Acting Director of Communicable Diseases at WHO/Europe, underlined the linkage to social determinants and highlighted the threat of latent TB.
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Member States adopted a resolution on the implementation of health literacy initiatives throughout the life course. To provide an example of health literacy in action, the session opened with a short film featuring Ms Noorihe Halimi, who works for the Swedish Association for Sexual Education (RFSU). She teaches migrants about their bodies, their rights and the state health-care system, ultimately empowering some of the most vulnerable people to make positive choices about their health.
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Seven additional regional non-State actors were accredited to the Regional Committee, bringing the total number to 26. These organizations are: AFEW International, AGE Platform Europe, AIDS Healthcare Foundation Europe, the European Federation of Nurses Associations, the European Patients’ Forum, the European Respiratory Society, and the Norwegian Cancer Society.
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Despite improvements in sexual and reproductive health across the Region, great inequalities persist between and within Member States. The evidence to date suggests that universal access to sexual and reproductive health is an unfinished agenda for the Region and challenges the attainment of several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The session also looked at progress on the roadmap to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Good progress has been made in some areas, including increasing life expectancy, decreasing maternal and child mortality, improving emergency preparedness capacity, and eliminating poliomyelitis and malaria.
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At a morning side event, WHO experts introduced the online data platform National Health Workforce Accounts, which enables countries to record, analyse and visualize health workforce information for their use.
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The message of this technical briefing was clear: although great progress has been made, severe inequities persist and children suffer from preventable health issues on a large scale. Policy-makers must abandon the misconception that the health and well-being of children and adolescents need no longer be a priority in Europe.