Strengthening AMR response through awareness and education in Nepal
MoHP and WHO conduct orientation for National Expert Review Committees for Vaccine-preventable Diseases
Nepal marks International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2025 with multi-stakeholder workshop
Provincial workshop held in Birgunj for Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) drive
Workshop on public health patent provisions in Nepal held
WHO Nepal hands over cholera kit
Nepal initiates adaptation of WHO’s assessment protocol to strengthen One-Stop Crisis Management Centres
Nepal integrates Alternate Care Sites into the national Hospital Disaster Preparedness Plan
World One Health Day
The world is witnessing an alarming increase in emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and the health impacts of climate change. These interconnected threats cross ...
World Cities Day 2025
31 October marks World Cities Day, designated by UN General Assembly Resolution 68/239. The day provides an opportunity to promote global interest in urbanization, foster internati ...
WHO South-East Asia Regional Committee concludes with landmark decisions and commitments to accelerate health for all
he Seventy-eighth session of WHO South-East Asia concluded today with Member States deliberating and adopting resolutions and decisions on key public health challenges, to accelera ...
WHO South-East Asia commits to healthy ageing
The Member States of WHO South-East Asia Region today adopted Colombo Declaration on ‘Healthy ageing through strengthened primary health care’, aimed at health and well-being of it ...
Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
World Pneumonia Day – 12 November 2025
Statement of the Forty-third meeting of the Polio IHR Emergency Committee
The Forty-second meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Direct ...
Countries make progress on WHO Pandemic Agreement annex on pathogen access and benefit sharing system
In an important step, Member States started discussing for the first time the proposed draft text of the annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement that establishes the Pathogen Access an ...
