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Strategic objectives for the development and implementation of maternal, newborn and child health quality of care programmes

This publication sets out the strategic objectives that programme managers can use to help countries design, implement, scale up and sustain maternal,...

Nurturing hopes: Progress in implementing the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer in the WHO South-East Asia Region

Launched by the WHO in 2018, the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) aims to achieve at least a 60% survival rate for children with cancer globally...

Training in yoga
19 December 2025

Training in yoga

A popular form of traditional and complementary medicine, Yoga is taught and practised in many Member States. The evidence-based approach to the effectiveness...

Developing national meningitis plans: an operational manual

This operational manual aims to support countries in developing their meningitis plans, along the five pillars of the Defeating meningitis by 2030 global...