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Appendix 13-1: Implementing the Resolution on International Trade
and Health
resolution wHa59.26 requests the director
general and the wHo to:
current wHo actions:
• Provide support to member states to
frame coherent policies to address the
relationship between trade and health.
• respond to member states' requests for
support of their efforts to build capacity
to understand the health implications of
international trade and trade agreements
and to address relevant issues through
policies and legislation.
• Joint wto-wHo trade and health
country missions.
• regional trade and health workshops.
• Scaled-up support to member states for
developing national policies and strategies
related to trade and health and structuring
their requests to external development
partners for capacity building in this area,
focussing first on developing a trade and
health diagnostic tool with the wto and
the world bank to link diagnostic tool
and country support to the Integrated
Framework and aid for trade Initiative.
• work with competent international
organisations to generate and share
evidence on the relationship between
trade and health.
• legal reviews of the GatS and the SPS
and tbt agreements from a health policy
perspective and of trade and health notes
for policy makers, extensively peer
reviewed by international organisations
and experts.
• Publication of
International Trade in
Health Services and the GATS: Current
Issues and Debates
, edited by chantal
blouin, nick Drager, and richard Smith
(2005).
• Publication of
A Handbook of
International Trade in Services
, edited
by aaditya Mattoo, robert M. Stern, and
Gianni Zanini (2007).
• trade and health training courses
(wHo-wto), with training modules
on the trIPS agreement and access
to medicines, the GatS and trade in
services, the SPS agreement and food
safety and infectious diseases.
• world bank Institute training courses on
trade in services with a health module
(trade in health-related services).
Notes
: GatS = General agreement on trade in Services; SPS = agreement on the application
of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures; tbt = agreement on technical barriers to trade;
trIPS = agreement on trade-related Intellectual Property rights; wHo = world Health
Organization; WTO = World Trade Organization.
