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News from WHO Western Pacific

11 October 2016

L’OMS s’engage à aider les États Membres à contrer la menace croissante des maladies à transmission vectorielle dans la Région et plaide en faveur d’un environnement sain

10 October 2016

Responding to gender-based violence is essential to achieving sustainable development in the Western Pacific Region

10 October 2016

Cambodia, Cook Islands, Niue and Vanuatu eliminate lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem

Sixty-seventh session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific opens in Manila

Asia-Pacific countries call for stronger action on environment and health

22 September 2016

Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages could reduce childhood overweight and obesity in the Western Pacific Region

21 September 2016

Hong Kong SAR (China) achieves measles-free status

16 September 2016

Member States call for stronger tobacco control measures to end tobacco industry interference

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11 December 2025

WHO expert group’s new analysis reaffirms there is no link between vaccines and autism

11 December 2025

Statement of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) on vaccines and autism

11 December 2025

Learning on TAP: improving access to assistive technology in Tanzania

11 December 2025

Departmental update

New resource on setting up a suicide bereavement support group