WHO DG PRIORITIES
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Health Organisation's new director general Lee Jong-wook has taken office, issuing a set of immediate priorities, that did NOT include work against tobacco consumption. Instead he announced that he would be focusing on creating a global plan to fight AIDS, driving more of the WHO's resources into field units (and away from its headquarters), plus developing his staffs' skills generally. That said, Mr Jong-wook told the 12th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, in Helsinki, Finland, that the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control's ...
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