Hourly news updates on summit7/11/2023 ![]() That’s why we call it a generational agreement,” he said. “The global accord now being negotiated will underpin the global approach to epidemics and pandemics for decades and maybe centuries to come. Ghebreyesus speech also put focus on the need for a global health treaty and clarified some doubts about it. WHS aims to strengthen exchange, stimulate innovative solutions to health challenges, position global health as a key political issue and promote a global health conversation in the spirit of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, a press note stated. Read more: World Mental Health Day: COVID-19 pandemic has worsened our mindscape “Taking global health to a new level means we need a new global agreement based on a common vision, a new global health architecture that is coherent and inclusive, and a new global approach that prioritises promoting health and preventing disease, rather than only treating the sick,” he said.Ĭancer control, health in times of war and crises, health and care workers and beating noncommunicable diseases will be some of the other topics to be discussed. The money will also be used to stop outbreaks of new virus variants, which may evade existing vaccinations, a report said.ĬOVID-19 pandemic exposed, exploited and exacerbated the global health architecture as fractured and incoherent, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed out. Meanwhile, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Octoannounced it would commit €1.23 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide at the summit, according to European television news network Euronews. “Networking and good cooperation across national borders are what matter - especially in the field of global health,” said German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The entire program is available for free online. Well over 300 speakers from all regions of the world are expected: Numerous government officials, representatives from academia, industry and civil society and around 6,000 participants on-site and online. Read more: World Health Assembly agrees for global treaty to ‘strengthen pandemic prevention’ This year’s summit will focus on a pandemic treaty, polio eradication, digital health and universal health coverage, tweeted Director of WHO Center on Global Health Law Lawrence Gostin. The leading theme of the opening ceremony: Taking Global Health to a New Level, stressed the need for exchange between scientific disciplines and science, politics and society. This is the first time the World Health Organization has co-hosted the global health conference. The museum is open on some weekends and by appointment - email Rangitoto bach settlements are irreplaceable artefacts of New Zealand's architectural and social history and therefore are of national significance.World Health Summit (WHS), an international health conference, is being held in Berlin, Germany, from October 16-18, 2022. Bach 38, adjacent to the Rangitoto Wharf, has been restored and turned into a museum run by volunteers from the Rangitoto Island Historic Conservation Trust. Many visit the pest-free haven of Rangitoto along with shore birds such as New Zealand dotterel/tūturiwhatu and variable oystercatcher/tōrea.Īround 30 classic holiday homes remain today, largely unchanged since the 1930s. The Hauraki Gulf is a global seabird hotspot with 27 species calling it home. Its pest-free status has seen native forest birds such as bellbird/korimako, New Zealand pigeon/kererū, tūī, fantail/pīwakawaka, grey warbler/riroriro, whitehead/pōpokotea and New Zealand parakeet/kākāriki flock back to survive and thrive. Thanks to the world’s largest on-island pest-eradication programme, in 2011 Rangitoto was declared pest-free of the seven mammalian pests that had caused damage to the plants, trees and native animals. It is the youngest volcano in Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau and sits right next to the oldest island, Motutapu, which is estimated to be more than 160 million years old. Rangitoto emerged from the sea approximately 600 years ago in a series of fiery volcanic explosions. ![]() food and drinking water – there is none available on the island.There are no rubbish bins on the island – take your rubbish back with you. ![]()
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