At the World Health Assembly today, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus presented his report on the work of WHO to Member States and the Assembly started general discussion under the theme “Reshaping global health: a shared responsibility”.

The Secretariat presented certificates of achievement for outstanding public health achievements:

Algeria, Australia, Burundi, Egypt, Fiji, Libya, Senegal and Tunisia for trachoma elimination;

Chile for leprosy elimination;

Kenya for Human African trypanosomiasis elimination;

Suriname and Timor-Leste for malaria elimination;

Anguilla, Bahamas, Brazil, Cuba, Denmark, Maldives, Montserrat, Oman, Sri Lanka and Turks and Caicos for the elimination mother-to-child transmission of HIV, HBV and syphilis; and

Portugal and United Arab Emirates for trans-fat elimination;

In recognition of their outstanding contributions to tobacco control, the following World No Tobacco Day awards certificates were awarded to:

Dr Louise Mapleh-Kpoto, Minister of Health of…