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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Dear Subscribers,<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">We are pleased to invite you to complete the
<i>Pacific model priority assistive product list (Pacific APL) survey. </i></span></b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> </span></b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The Pacific APL will be a blueprint for Pacific Island Countries and territories (PICs) to develop their own priority assistive product lists, adapted to national needs
and priorities. Countries may use national priority assistive product lists to help identify priority products for financing, procurement and for prioritising workforce training to provide specific assistive products.</span></b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Development of the Pacific APL is led by a Pacific Assistive Technology Steering Committee which includes members representing government and civil society, and regional
organisations from across the Pacific. The WHO act as a secretariat for this Steering Committee. </span></b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Your input into this survey is very important to help ensure that the Pacific APL is shaped by Pacific population needs and priorities, and is tailored to the Pacific environment,
resources, lifestyles and cultural values. </span></b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Please do share this survey widely with any colleagues or organizations across the Pacific:
<a href="https://extranet.who.int/dataformv3/index.php/426982" title="https://extranet.who.int/dataformv3/index.php/426982">
https://extranet.who.int/dataformv3/index.php/426982</a></span></b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Claire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Consultant - Expanding Access to Assistive Technology in the Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">World Health Organization Representative Office for the South Pacific</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:mcivorc@who.int">mcivorc@who.int</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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