Launch of "Taking a strategic approach to urban health: a guide for decision-makers"
Mind Over Matter: Making Mental Health A Priority
Do No Harm: Joint Statement against the medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation in Asia-Pacific - A Call to Action
World Heart Day
WHO strengthens strategic partnership for health with NHCO
DOH Elderly Day Care Center—Empowering Seniors and Promoting Social Connection
Vision for All: Metta Pracharak Hospital Joins WHO in Advancing Eye Health in Thailand
United in Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct (PRS): Highlights from WHO PRS Workshop
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 ...
Global gains in tuberculosis response endangered by funding challenges
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year, according to th ...
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 ...
Expanding rehabilitation access in Tajikistan
Breaking barriers for pregnant women with disabilities: A case study on inclusive maternal care in Tanzania
Noncommunicable diseases in humanitarian settings
“PRET” for future pandemics? Countries in WHO’s South-East Asia Region outline steps to update respiratory pandemic plans
