Member States recommended the adoption of two resolutions on meningitis control and epilepsy at the 73rd World Health Assembly on Thursday (November 12).
Committee A, which focuses on programme and budget matters, decided to recommend the adoption of the first-ever resolution on meningitis, which would approve a global roadmap to defeat meningitis by 2030 – a disease that kills 250 000 people annually and leaves one in five of those affected with devastating long-term consequences.
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甲委员会还建议通过决议，呼吁加大对癫痫和其他神经系统疾病，如中风、偏头痛和痴呆症的综合行动力度。
The Committee also recommended the adoption of a resolution calling for scaled-up and integrated action on epilepsy and other neurological disorders such as stroke, migraine and dementia.
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神经系统疾病是导致残疾的主要原因，也是全世界第二大死亡原因。
Neurological disorders are the leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of death worldwide.
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甲委员会进一步决定建议通过一项决定，批准新的被忽视的热带病路线图。
The Committee further decided to recommend the adoption of a decision endorsing the new roadmap for neglected tropical diseases.
The roadmap aims to achieve these targets by 2030: reduce by 90% the number of people requiring treatment for NTDs, eliminate at least one NTD in 100 countries, eradicate two diseases (dracunculiasis and yaws), and reduce by 75% the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) related to NTDs.
WHO has established a Special Programme on Primary Health Care to roll out the Operational Framework – supporting Member States to build people-centred, resilient and sustainable primary health care-based health systems.
Committee B – which deals predominantly with administrative, financial and legal matters – reviewed the Director-General’s report on “Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan”.