WHO | Week Ahead for media | 2 December 2022

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Friday 02.12.22 | Issue 183

WHO/ Lindsay Mackenzie

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updates

Monkeypox outbreak updates

Ukraine emergency updates

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A virtual press briefing with simultaneous translation in all UN languages with the participation of the WHO Director-General is tentatively scheduled for next week. If confirmed, media advisory with dial-in details will be emailed in advance.

5-7 December 2022

Third meeting of Intergovernmental Negotiating Body

The third meeting of the INB (Intergovernmental Negotiating Body) to draft and negotiate an international instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response will take place from 5 to 7 December 2022. At this meeting, the INB will consider the Conceptual Zero Draft (CZD) of the instrument and will discuss the way forward for the INB process, including development of a Zero Draft of the instrument and establishment of drafting group modalities.

1:1 interviews with the INB Bureau are available on request. Please email [email protected]

For more information on the INB, click here.

The meeting will be webcast here.

Thursday, 8 December 2022

World Malaria Report 2022

WHO’s World Malaria Report 2022 will be released on 8 December 2022.

Journalists are invited to join an embargoed virtual press briefing on Tuesday, 6 December at 3 pm CET (Geneva time), during which key findings of the report will be presented. A media advisory for this will be shared shortly.

The report, along with global and regional briefing kits summarizing key findings, will be made available, under embargo.

1:1 interviews to discuss the report are available on request. Please email [email protected]. But also feel free to attend the press briefing and raise your any questions there.

For more information on WHO's malaria programme generally, click here.

Fifth Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) Report

The fifth Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) Report will be released on 8 December 2022 and will summarize data on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial consumption reported by 87 countries. This is the first report to capture AMR rates since COVID-19.

There will be a press conference to publicize the report's findings. More details are to follow.

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