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World AIDS Day 2025: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response
World AIDS Day 2025: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response
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About WHO South-East Asia
One of the six WHO Regions, WHO South-East Asia is home to a quarter of the world’s population.
Committed to building a better, healthier future for the nearly two billion people in the Region, WHO is working with the 10 Member States to address persisting and emerging epidemiological and demographic challenges.
Officer-in-Charge
WHO South-East Asia Regional Director Saima Wazed is currently on leave.
During this period, Dr Catharina Boehme is serving as Officer-in-Charge.
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Saima Wazed
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Prioritization update
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Evaluation reports
Reassignment of Indonesia
Indonesia reassigned to WHO Western Pacific Region
On 23 May 2025, at the Seventy-eighth session of the World Health Assembly Member States approved the request from the Government of Indonesia for the country’s reassignment from the South-East Asia Region to the Western Pacific Region.
Global Leprosy Programme
The Global Leprosy Programme (GLP) of the World Health Organization is housed in the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (and not in the Organization’s headquarters in Geneva). It is the Organization’s designated programme for addressing leprosy worldwide. Being classified as one of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the unit works in close collaboration with the Department of Control of NTDs in HQ, designated focal points in all regions, national leprosy programmes and partners.
World Health Day 2025
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26 December 2025
Midwifery Leadership Programme Facilitator Guide
The South-East (SE) Asia Region MLP reflects the findings of the SE Asia Region Midwifery Leadership Profiles (2022), in which a critical need for a leadership...
26 December 2025
Midwifery Leadership Programme Learner’s Package: Participant Manual
The South-East (SE) Asia Region MLP reflects the findings of the SE Asia Region Midwifery Leadership Profiles (2022), in which a critical need for a leadership...
12 December 2025
Lessons from case studies of social participation and its role in the pandemic response in the WHO South-East...
Meaningful engagement of populations in health policy is becoming more important, as reflected in the global commitment to meaningful participation in...
12 December 2025
Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Management for Public Health in the Regional Office for...
The present document is a framework for technology transfer for intellectual property management and access to medical products in the context of Public...
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