Speeches and messages

World Rabies Day 2019

Address by the Regional Director at the Friends of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs): Supporting Member States to achieve the NCD-related Sustainable Development Goals targets

Address by the Regional Director - UHC in Least Developed Countries: A time for Accelerated Action

Address by the Regional Director at The AMR Challenge: A Night Celebrating Global Resistance Fighters

World Patient Safety Day 2019

World Hepatitis Day 2019

Address by the Regional Director at the regional consultation for strengthening frontline services for universal health coverage by 2030

Address by the Regional Director at the Nationwide BreatheLife Campaign and Action Plan

Address by the Regional Director at the award ceremony to mark Maldives’ Elimination of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV/AIDS and Syphilis

Regional Director’s speech at the launch of the framework for zero leprosy, Maldives

Address by the Regional Director at the Tenth Meeting of the SEA Region Immunization Technical Advisory Group (SEAR-ITAG)

Address by the Regional Director at the Regional workshop on elimination of cervical cancer in WHO South-East Asia Region

Address by the Regional Director at the Regional Workshop to accelerate cancer prevention and control

World Blood Donor Day 2019

Address by the Regional Director at the Fourth SEAR-WPR Health Financing Policy Workshop: Implementing Strategic purchasing in Asia

World Environment Day 2019

International Day of Midwives, 5 May 2019 and International Nurses Day, 12 May 2019

World Malaria Day 2019

Address by the Regional Director at the 3rd Annual meeting of South-East Asia Regulatory Network (SEARN)

Address by the Regional Director on World Health Day 2019 – ‘Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere’