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Tuesday, 27 May 2025
WHA Highlights for Media
Final day of the 78th World Health Assembly (27 May)
The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly [https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha78.html] (WHA78) is meeting today at the Palais des Nations in Geneva for the final day of the 78th session.
The Health Assembly will meet at 09.00 CEST in Committee A (Room XX) and at 09.30 in Committee B (Room XVII). It will hold its final Plenary around 14.30 CEST (Room XIX), during which it will adopt the Committees’ reports, including decisions and resolutions, and close the seventy-eighth session.
A press conference on the outcomes of the WHA78 and the related global health issues will be held, in a hybrid format, following the closing of the Health Assembly. A media advisory with further details will be sent closer to the time.
The detailed programme of work can be found in the Daily Journal N°8 [https://apps.who.int/gb/Journal/e/WHA78/JRN-A78-8_en.html], available in six languages of the United Nations (UN).
The live webcast of the proceedings can be accessed here [https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha78.html], simultaneous interpretation will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
Highlights of the day:
Action on Draft Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health (Committee B)Adoption of the reports of the two committees and the decisions and resolutions approved during the WHA78 ( list [https://apps.who.int/gb/Journal/e/WHA78/JRN-A78-8_en.html]) (the Plenary)Closure of the 78th World Health AssemblyPress conference (hybrid format) following the closure of the WHA78
Committee A will hear the reports by the Director-General on Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ( A78/7 Rev.1 [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_7Rev1-en.pdf]) and on antimicrobial resistance ( A78/8 [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_8-en.pdf]).
Committee B will conclude the discussion on the Draft Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health ( A78/4 [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_4-en.pdf] and A78/4 Add.2 [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_4Add2-en.pdf]) and the related decisions ( EB156(40) [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB156/B156_(40)-en.pdf] and its amendments A78/B/CONF./3 Rev.1 [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_BCONF3Rev1-en.pdf]).
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