Amidst questions whirling over the UN agency on the importance of HINI, the World Health Organization today announced to launch a review of the global - including its own - response to the H1N1 swine influenza epidemic.

WHO Director General Margaret Chan's announcement to the WHO Executive Board today claimed that WHO is expected to come up with an interim version of its review analysis of the global H1N1 response in time for the next World Health Assembly in May.

Chan's meeting with the UN missions and ministries of health and finance on 12-13 January, has put forward the issues of governance and funding for the WHO

The WHO in recent years has developed a global strategy and plan of action on these issues, and the financing aspect is a final step.

"We have serious concerns about the transparency of the process", Health Action International said in a 15 January open letter to the Executive Board, revealing that the report is away from substantive issues and intellectual property.

Since all countries on the Board unanimously agreed on the remarkable response of WHO's to the H1N1 pandemic, a variety of countries asked that WHO review its work on the pandemic,

In addition, Japan claimed it could discern measures in future to address the seriousness of any flu outbreak, such as number of patients hospitalized.