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IPU and WHO
25/03/2024

Working together for a healthier, safer world: WHO and IPU renew partnership

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today signed a new memorandum of understanding, reaffirming the critical role that parliamentarians play in enabling good health to foster stable and equitable societies. The new five-year memorandum was signed
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WHO-IPU African Parliamentary High-Level Conference on Strengthening Health Security Preparedness, 8 November 2023

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 66._who-ipu-hlc-opening-final.pdf 125.75 KB
English
Country:
Ghana
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health

Workshop on the development of the Pandemic Accord , 26 October 2023

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 69._who-pandemicaccord-26.10.2023.pdf 72.58 KB
English
Country:
Angola
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health

Side event: WHO’s upcoming strategy and its financing Organized by WHO, 26 October 2023

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 70._who-strategyfinancing-25.10.2023.pdf 120.51 KB
English
Country:
Angola
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health
Conference

WHO-IPU African Parliamentary High-Level Conference on Strengthening Health Security Preparedness

Accra, Ghana
The Conference will strengthen parliamentarians’ awareness of the opportunities presented by their unique functions to play a role in advancing health emergency preparedness at the national and regional level. It is being convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional
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Voices
In a clinic
21/09/2023

The path toward Universal Health Coverage

What is Universal Health Coverage? And why are parliaments critical to implementing this key part of the development agenda? Find out more in this 1-minute video and download the IPU/WHO Handbook The Path to Universal Health Coverage.
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31st PMNCH Board Meeting Agenda ITEM 5 – Advancing Adolescent Health and Well-Being through the Global Forum for Adolescents and 1.8b Campaign, 22 June 2023

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 30._pmnch-boardmeeting31-item5-22.06.2023.pdf 159.95 KB
English
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health

76th World Health Assembly, 24 May 2023

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 21._wha76-may2023-health.pdf 119.84 KB
English
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health

Preparing young people for a safe, healthy, fulfilling life: parliamentarians advancing comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) with and for their communities, 14 March 2023

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 14.03.2023-sg-panel-comprehensivesexualityeducation.pdf 158.59 KB
English
Country:
Bahrain
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health

IPU–WHO side event at the 146th IPU Assembly, “Leveraging the role of parliamentarians to progress towards UHC”, 13 March 2023

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 13.03.2023-sg-opening-ipu-uhc.pdf 192.87 KB
English
Country:
Bahrain
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health

75th World Health Assembly, 23 May 2022

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 33._who-75wha-may2022-health.pdf 140.01 KB
English
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health
Handbooks

The path towards universal health coverage

Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. UHC can be seen as the practical expression of the right to health, which was
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Press releases
Darfur
12/12/2022

Ensuring universal health coverage: New resource for parliamentarians

The IPU and the World Health Organization (WHO) have produced a handbook on universal health coverage (UHC) intended to help parliaments fulfil their roles as enablers of UHC. Here are its main features.
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Handbooks

Saving Lives and Mobilizing Revenue: A parliamentary action guide to health taxes

An estimated 41 million people worldwide died of preventable noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in 2019 which include diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Often, these diseases are caused by harmful products, such as alcohol, tobacco, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Reducing consumption of these
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Virtual event

Public engagement for universal health coverage

This virtual workshop will discuss how parliaments can leverage public engagement as part of efforts towards UHC.
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News in brief
Malaysian MPs
30/09/2022

IPU welcomes Malaysian MPs to discuss food security

This week, IPU Secretary General Martin Chungong welcomed a delegation of MPs from the Parliament of Malaysia to the House of Parliaments. The delegation comprised members of the Malaysian Parliament’s Special Select Committee on Agriculture and Domestic Trade. On the
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News in brief
climate change
07/04/2022

Our planet, our health, our parliaments

April 7 marks World Health Day, a day which has taken on a new sense of urgency with the climate crisis. Almost all consequences of climate change directly affect human lives. Climate change is the single biggest threat to health
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“Putting the wellbeing of people and the planet at the centre of COVID-19 recovery strategies: The critical role of parliaments webinar, 31 March 2022

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 21._kgz-nationalroundtable-21.04.2022-19541961statelessnessconvention.pdf 110.48 KB
English
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health

Launch of the IPU-WHO handbook “Strengthening health security preparedness: The International Health Regulations (2005)”, 24 March 2022

Document type:
Speech
Document file:
Download 14._144assembly-globalheatlhsecurityhandbook.pdf 141.26 KB
English
IPU structure:
Secretary General
Theme:
Health
Handbooks

Strengthening health security preparedness: The International Health Regulations (2005)

This handbook describes the role of parliaments in strengthening emergency preparedness and health security.
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