Swine flu dominates WHO's Asia-Pacific meeting

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Updated September 21, 2009 19:58:50

The World Health Organisation opened its annual Asia-Pacific meeting in Hong Kong today, with the swine flu pandemic topping the agenda. In wealthy countries with ready access to Tamiflu, swine flu has dropped out of the headlines, but it is still causing deaths and huge concern in the developing world. The WHO's director-general, Dr Margaret Chan, says there's no sign of the virus mutating into anything more severe so far. But she's pushing for three billion doses of vaccine to be made available worldwide, and will be looking for a $US1.4 billion finance plan when she travels to the UN General Assembly later this week.

Presenter: Corinne Podger
Speaker: Dr Peter Cordingly, spokesman, Western Pacific Regional Office, World Health Organisation

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