Future collaboration with China's government will have major focus on road safety and prevention of both intentional and unintentional pesticide poisoning, though other areas will also be addressed.
In conjunction with China CDC, WHO is planning to host a major road safety conference in Shanghai in 2007. This event will bring together national experts and those responsible for preventing road traffic injury with international experts to discuss how China can strengthen road safety, utilizing lessons shared from decades of experience in high income countries. Recognizing the role of corporate stakeholders in road safety in China, this conference will be sponsored the private sector.
WHO is also supporting the development of the national report on injury and violence prevention. The public release of this historic document in 2007 will see the commencement of a high level consultation to develop a national action plan for injury and violence prevention in China.
On October 11, 2006, the Secretary General's Report on Violence against Children was presented to the United Nations General Assembly. WHO and UNICEF are exploring further collaboration to highlight child maltreatment, including a high level launch of this historic global report in Chinese. WHO and UNICEF are also preparing WHO's latest guideline, Preventing Child Maltreatment, for release in China.
On October 11, 2006, the Secretary General's Report on Violence against Children was presented to the United Nations General Assembly. WHO and UNICEF are exploring further collaboration to highlight child maltreatment, including a high level launch of this historic global report in Chinese. WHO and UNICEF are also preparing WHO's latest guideline, Preventing Child Maltreatment, for release in China.
In 2008, WHO and UNICEF will jointly release the World report on child and adolescent injury prevention. After the global release of this report, WHO and UNICEF will increase advocacy and collaboration with the government to implement the recommendations of this highly anticipated report. Prevention of child injury needs to be adopted as a major priority if the obligation of the Millennium Development Goal on child mortality is to be achieved.