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News from Brunei Darussalam, Singapore and Malaysia

News from WHO Western Pacific

18 September 2017

The 68th session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Committee Meeting for the Western Pacific (RCM68)

Progress on Early Essential Newborn Care in the Western Pacific Region, but millions of newborn infants remain at risk

Congratulations, Tonga! Pacific island state eliminates lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem

World No Tobacco Day 2017: Tobacco is a threat to development

DOH, WHO Launch Cooperation Strategies Toward a Healthy Philippines

Slow down to save lives

Immunization can save a million and a half more lives in WHO’s Western Pacific Region

World Malaria Day focuses on wiping out the disease

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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