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Smoking causes 1 million cardiovascular deaths in Asia Pacific each year

Public health champions from Western Pacific Region recognized at World Health Assembly

One third of global air pollution deaths in Asia Pacific

Viet Nam ready to eliminate malaria

Care out of reach for too many; WHO calls for action to achieve health for all

TB down in past decade; universal health coverage key to faster progress

26 February 2018

Working together to protect health after Cyclone Gita

13 December 2017

More action needed to achieve universal health coverage in Asia and the Pacific by global deadline

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Departmental update

People, animals, plants, ecosystems: making the case for investing in One Health

Statement of the Forty-fifth Meeting of the Polio IHR Emergency Committee

Second meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the epidemic of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Temporary recommendations

Departmental update

Mozambique strengthens regulation of medicines and imported vaccines, boosting health protection