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With climate-related disasters, disease outbreaks and other health emergencies becoming more frequent and complex across South-East Asia, WHO and Member States today discussed meas ...

The 19th Meeting of the South East Asia Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication (SEA RCCPE) was held from 24–26 June 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, bringing together g ...

An independent regional expert body has called for urgent and targeted action to close immunity gaps and strengthen surveillance at sub-national level, as countries in the WHO Sout ...

Violence against children remains one of the most pervasive and harmful threats to the wellbeing and development of children in South Asia. Across the region, millions of children ...

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met with HIV community leaders who were in Geneva for the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) meeting, reaffirming WHO's co ...

This WHO Medical Product Alert concerns two batches of falsified DARZALEX (daratumumab) injection. The falsified products were detected in the Maldives and Mexico. National Regulat ...

WHO has launched a new global database on the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The open-access database is the first global platform to provide consolidated, s ...