WHO Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly

Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly

Dr Christos Patsalides

Minister of Health, Cyprus
President of the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly

Date: 16–24 May 2011
Location: Geneva, Switzerland

The Health Assembly will discuss a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board as well as the programme budget, administration and management matters of WHO.

• Daily notes on proceedings

Documentation

• Provisional agenda
  pdf, 140kb
• Complete documentation
• Journal, Number 5
  20 May 2011: programme of meetings

Information for media

• WHA 64: guidelines and information for media

Selected topics

• Child health
• Child injuries and violence
• Cholera
• Chronic diseases
• Health systems
• Health workforce
• HIV/AIDS
• Immunization
• Malaria
• Maternal health
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Smallpox

Speeches

Dr Margaret Chan

WHO Director-General

• Opening address
• Opening address video
  Streaming wmv, 00:32:50

Bill Gates

Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Read the speech
• Video of speech
  Streaming wmv, 00:28:42

Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister of Bangladesh

• Read the speech
• Video of speech
  Streaming wmv, 00:27:23

Dr Christos Patsalides

President, Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly

• Video of speech