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Road damage en route to Nay Pyi Taw, disrupting access for emergency response and humanitarian delivery
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Myanmar Earthquake 2025 Update
On 28 March 2025, two powerful earthquakes struck central Myanmar’s Sagaing Region near Mandalay. The first, with a magnitude of 7.7, occurred at 12:50 p.m. local time, followed by a second of magnitude 6.4 at 1:02 p.m. Multiple aftershocks have since been reported, disrupting ongoing rescue operations
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WHO South-East Asia Region Epidemiological Bulletin
This epidemiological bulletin aims to provide the situation of key infectious diseases in the WHO South-East Asia region to inform risk assessment and response by countries. The bulletin uses information from publicly available sources and will be published every two weeks.
The Regional Strategic Roadmap on health security and health system resilience for emergencies 2023–2027 was developed under the overall guidance of the Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, by WHO Regional Office staff. Inputs from literature reviews, Member States’ self-assessments and joint external evaluations of IHR (2005) core capacities, intra-action reviews of COVID-19 response at country and regional levels, and reports of regional consultations, were used in its preparation. Experts and partners provided valuable guidance on the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 response. The Health Emergencies Department of the Regional Office expresses its gratitude to all individuals who actively participated in, helped organize content and contributed to the formulation of the Roadmap.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, WHO is supporting countries in their containment and mitigation efforts such as by providing technical guidance, laboratory capacity strengthening for testing, equipment for hospitals and healthcare workers, and creating awareness and addressing misinformation. This website provides information and guidance of relevance to the WHO South-East Asia Region.
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31 October 2023
WHO South-East Asia Regional Strategy for the prevention and control of Nipah virus...
The Regional publication “WHO South-east Asia Regional Strategy for the prevention and control of Nipah virus infection, 2023-2030 provides guidance...
This compendium showcases exemplary practices adopted by member states and partners in the WHO South-East Asia Region from the onset of the pandemic until...
17 September 2024
Technical Brief (interim) and Priority Actions: Enhancing Readiness for mpox in WHO...
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
25 August 2025
Joint external evaluation of the International Health Regulations (2005) core capacities of Bangladesh:...
Eight years after completing its first Joint External Evaluation (JEE) in 2016, Bangladesh remains at the forefront of demonstrating strong leadership...
18 August 2025
Seventeenth Biregional Meeting of National Influenza Centres and Influenza Surveillance in WHO’s South-East...
To ensure better and holistic preparedness for the next pandemic, the 17th biregional meeting of NICs and influenza surveillance brought together key stakeholders...
8 August 2025
Informing Public Health Decision-Making with Multisource Collaborative Surveillance: A Step-by-Step Approach
Managing health security threats require critical decision-making despite many uncertainties. One of the key lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic...
Influenza – a global public health problemInfluenza is an important cause of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in an estimated 3–5...
In line with these objectives, the 2023 Regional PRET Meeting, held alongside the annual PIP Meeting, recommended conducting a simulation exercise in...
9 January 2025
Training on influenza data management, analysis and pandemic influenza severity assessment, Jakarta,...
In line with the Global Influenza Strategy (2019–2030) and recommendations from the 14th Bi-Regional meeting of surveillance and National Influenza...
8 October 2024
Regional Roadmap to Advance Field Epidemiology Capacities in the WHO South-East Asia Region 2025–2029
Among the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Member States expressed the crucial importance of the field epidemiology workforce as key components...
8 October 2024
Strategic Action Framework for Strengthening Community Engagement and Resilience to Health Emergencies...
The Strategic Action Framework for Strengthening Community Engagement and Resilience to Health Emergencies in the WHO South-East Asia Region (2025–2029)...
Since 2014 Member States of the WHO South-East Asia Region have strengthened emergency risk management as one of the Region’s Flagship Priority...
10 November 2019
Invisible: The Rohingyas, the crisis, the people and their health
A mass movement of the Rohingya people started on 25th August 2017 from the Rakhine state of Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. This...
5 June 2017
Roots for resilience
The aims of the publication are three-fold. It provides a solid base for quantifying risks by defining methodologies with existing tools and data sets....
On 25 April 2015 at 11:56 NST, with a mighty shudder, the earth released the pent-up seismic energy trapped within in the form of an earthquake that lasted...
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12 February 2024
Emergency response framework (ERF), Edition 2.1
The ERF provides WHO staff with essential guidance on how the Organization manages the assessment, grading and response to public health events and emergencies...
23 June 2022
Joint external evaluation tool: International Health Regulations (2005) - third edition
The first edition of the WHO Joint External Evaluation (JEE) tool was published in February 2016 followed by the second edition of the tool that...
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are serious public health threats, globally as well as in the WHO South-East Asia Region. An emerging infectious...
1 January 2016
International Health Regulations (2005) – Third edition
The International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) provide the international legal framework for the prevention and response to the international spread...
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