{"id":16792,"date":"2023-11-07T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16792"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:45:27","slug":"wlpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wlpf\/","title":{"rendered":"World Local Production Forum (WLPF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About World Local Production Forum<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an initiative of the World Health Organisation.<\/li>\n<li>The first WLPF was organized virtually in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Aim: Increasing access to medicines and other health technologies.<\/li>\n<li>This forum provides Member States and the global community with a regular platform to\u00a0shape strategies, galvanize\u00a0collective action, and foster partnerships on sustainable local production to improve\u00a0timely and equitable access to quality assured health products.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Secretariat: The Local Production and Assistance (LPA) Unit at the WLPF.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0second WLPF aims\n<ul>\n<li>To provide a global platform to discuss key challenges in\u00a0promoting local production and technology transfer.<\/li>\n<li>To explore opportunities and mechanisms to tackle the bottlenecks.<\/li>\n<li>To promote sustainable local production capacity to improve access to quality, safe and effective health products and technologies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about World Health Organisation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in\u00a01948.<\/li>\n<li>It is a United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people\u00a0to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.<\/li>\n<li>It provides\u00a0technical assistance to countries, sets international health standards, and collects data on global health issues.<\/li>\n<li>It has played a leading role in several public health achievements, most notably the Eradication of smallpox, the near-eradication of polio, and the development of an Ebola<\/li>\n<li>The World Health Assembly, the agency&#8217;s decision-making body, elects and advises an executive\u00a0board made up of 34 health specialists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Ebola?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a viral disease that can cause a severe and often fatal illness in humans. It is caused by the Ebola virus, which is part of the Filoviridae family. Ebola is characterized by a sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache, and a sore throat, which is often followed by vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function, and, in some cases, internal and external bleeding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Indian-delegation-led-by-Union-MoS-Bhagwant-Khuba-to-leave-for-Netherlands-to-participate-in-2nd-World-Local-Production-Forum&amp;id=470710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian delegation led by Union MoS Bhagwant Khuba to leave for Netherlands to participate in 2nd World Local Production Forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Local Production Forum (WLPF)  is an initiative of the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}