Seventeenth session
WPR/RC17.R4
Filariasis
The Regional Committee,
Having reviewed the report presented by the Regional Director on the epidemiology of filariasis in the Western Pacific Region, *
Having noted with interest the additional reports presented on the subject by Representatives,
- EXPRESSES the hope that:
- (1) governments will continue to study this problem and particularly to find more effective ways of controlling the disease; and
- (2) UNICEF will also continue to report campaigns against it;
- REQUESTS the Regional Director to provide the countries concerned with any new information which arises in this field.
27 September 1966