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ILAE eNewsletter World Health Organization and Epilepsy
Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we write to let you know that the Executive Board of the World Health Organization has approved unanimously a strong resolution in support of improving epilepsy care and research. The resolution (“Global burden of epilepsy and the need for coordinated action at the country level to address its health, social and public knowledge implications”), was formally sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the Maldives, Argentina, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan and Panama. The next step for this resolution is presentation at the WHO General Assembly in May for final approval. Once approved it will become a formal policy of the WHO so that the fight against epilepsy becomes a truly global effort. Although many people in the regions, ILAE chapters and IBE member associations worked hard to encourage passage of the resolution, we would like to highlight in particular the efforts of Alla Guekht of Russia and Shichuo Li of China in encouraging their national delegations to sponsor the initial resolution. Please encourage your governments to support and co-sponsor the resolution at the WHO Assembly in May. Thank you for all of your efforts for epilepsy. Emilio Perucca, President of the ILAE Thanos Covanis, President of IBE WHO and Epilepsy: WHO programme on reducing the epilepsy treatment gap WHO and Epilepsy WHO video Epilepsy: Treat it, Defeat it List of delegations that stood up for epilepsy and delivered a formal statement supporting the resolution: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Brazil (also speaking on behalf of the 25 members of the Americas), Canada, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo (also speaking on behalf of all 47 members of the WHO African region), Egypt (speaking on behalf of the 22 EMRO members), Greece, India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Panama, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Suriname, Thailand, United States of America, and Uruguay (also speaking on behalf of the 12 UNASUR members).