PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete, who also chairs the United Nations High Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises, will today provide members of the UN a progress report on what the panel has been doing since its inception in April, this year.
According to a statement by the office of the Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations, President Kikwete will address members after completion of the third meeting of the Panel that will take place at the UN headquarters in New York.
Other members of the Panel are Celso Amorim (Brazil), Micheline Calmy (Switzerland), Marty Natalegawa (Indonesia), Joy Phumapi (Botswana) and Rajav Shah (USA). United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, after forming the panel in April, asked it to make recommendations on strengthening national and international systems to prevent and manage future health crises, taking into account lessons learned from the response to the outbreak of Ebola virus disease.
In carrying out its work, the Panel will undertake a wide range of consultations, including with representatives from the affected countries and communities, the United Nations system, multilateral and bilateral financial institutions and regional development banks, nongovernmental organizations, countries supporting the response effort, other member states, health-care providers, academic and research institutions, the private sector and other experts.
The Panel will be supported by a resource group of leading experts which is to provide advice to the Panel on technical and other issues. It held its first meeting in early May, 2015 and expects to submit its final report to the Secretary General at the end of December, 2015, subsequent to which the Secretary General will make the report available to the General Assembly and undertake further action as appropriate.
Culled from Daily News
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