World Health Assembly approves slim budget for big projects.

Reports on the 191-nation annual World Health Assembly (WHA) held in Switzerland in May 1999. The WHA approval of a working budget; Keynote speaker, Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel economic prize winner; Passage of a resolution for the retention of variola virus stocks until 2002; The Revised Drug Strategy that will support efforts to protect consumers from unsafe drugs. INSET: Zuma is given Tobacco Free World award by WHO, by Adele Baleta.