Jordan Times
Thursday, May 20, 2005
Queen Rania receives 2005 UAE Health Foundation Prize
AMMAN (JT) — Her Majesty Queen Rania was awarded
the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize at the World Health
Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday.
An international recognition of Queen Rania's commitment and active involvement
in health development issues, the prize was presented at a special ceremony
during the annual World Health Assembly (WHA), which brought together WHO office
representatives from around the world, practitioners of health-related
organisations and health ministers from WHO member states, including Health
Minster Saeed Darwazeh, who received the award on the Queen's behalf.
Established in 1993 upon the directives of the late Sheikh Zayed Ben Sultan Al
Nahayyan, previous recipients of the award include former US First Lady Hilary
Clinton (1998), Medicines Sans Frontieres (2002), Sir Magdi Yacoub (2003) and
Nigeria's First Lady Stella Ivbayelea Obasanjo (2004).
Established in 1948 as the United Nations specialised agency for health, WHO is
governed by 192 member states through the World Health Assembly, the main tasks
of which are to approve the WHO programme and the budget for the following year
and to decide major policy questions.