The seventy-eighth health health assembly has approved a decision to update the Global Action Plan (GAP) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR)For a discussion in the World Health Assembly next year (WHA79) in 2026.
It is estimated that 4.71 million deaths were associated with bacterial RAM in 2021, according to the Study of the global burden on diseases, injuries and risk factors (GBD). The Gap update will offer a practical framework for the next 10 years to achieve the objectives and commitments included in the political declaration of the United Nations General Assembly of Haute Réunion level on AMR in 2024 – including a 10% reduction in global deaths associated with bacterial RAM by 2030.
Since the adoption of the global action plan in 2015, more than 170 countries have developed multisectoral national action plans to contact RAM. The updated plan will guarantee that the latest directives are available to help countries accelerate implementation. It will reflect a multisectoral health approach, which aims to balance and lastingly optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.
WHO and other quadripartite organizations – United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the United Nations Environment Program (UNP) and the World Animal Health Organization (WoAH) – will develop this update in consultation with the Member States and the stakeholders concerned.
The seventy-eighth health health assembly also considered the progress made in countries of support to prevent infections; Ensure universal access to affordable quality and diagnosis and appropriate treatment; Strengthen surveillance, research and innovation; And improve consciousness, governance and financing of the AMR.
In the future, other WHO priorities include countries of support to carry out efficiency gains by integrating RAM interventions into planning and financing of the health sector, and the improvement of coordination and governance of the AMR response at all levels, including with quadrippartite.
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The Assembly adopts the global action plan on climate change and health for 2025-2028
During the sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in 2025, the Member States expressed their support for the very first global action plan on climate change and health, marking significant advance in global health and climate policy. The 2025-2028 global action plan project (EB156 (40)) has recognized the urgent need to deal with the impacts on climate change health, to position health systems as part of the climate solution.
It aims to provide a strategic framework to guide the Member States, the WHO Secretariat and other stakeholders in the development of low -carbon health systems with climate; Improve monitoring and early alert systems; protect vulnerable populations; and integrate health into climate policy and financing mechanisms.
Based on the commitments made at the previous conference of the Parties (COP) and the results of the meeting of the Board of Directors in February 2025, this plan supports the work to promote leadership for health in the global climate agenda and coordinate action and implementation at the country level. By supporting this global action plan, the Assembly said that climate action is not only an environmental priority but also a strategic health priority.
While recognizing this significant progress, some Member States have noted that more time and dialogue are necessary to achieve consensus on certain principles and language used in the action plan in the future.
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- Climate change and health: Write the global action plan on climate change and health A78 / 4 Add.2
- Documents A78 / 4,, A78 / 4 Add.2 and EB156 / 2025 / REC / 1, decision EB156 (40)
- Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health as content in the decision EB156 (40) And
- EB156 / 25))