Nutrition will take the spotlight at next week’s 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, with two nutrition-related resolutions set to be presented for adoption.
“This WHA needs to be a wake-up call: nutrition is not just a humanitarian issue. It’s a matter of public health, human rights, and global equity,” Caroline Antoine, deputy director of technical expertise and research at Action Contre La Faim, or ACF, told Devex..
The annual meeting of the WHA — the decision-making body of the World Health Organization — will take place from May 19-27, and this year’s theme is “One World for Health.” It takes place during a difficult period for global health amid funding cuts from multiple aid donors.
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