Public Health

To tackle diabetes, strengthen primary health care and empower families Diabetes is a significant threat to public health across the WHO South-East Asia Region. An estimated 91 million people in …

The Kathmandu Declaration Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Global Gathering 2019 The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Global Gathering brought together over 1,000 global leaders from 101 countries, 1 Indian State, …

A Global call to action on childhood pneumonia #WorldPneumoniaDay Pneumonia claimed the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five last year, or one child every 39 …

World Pneumonia Day– We are championing the fight against pneumonia!  World Pneumonia Day, marked every year on November 12, was established by the Stop Pneumonia Initiative in 2009 to raise …

New WHO report to bolster efforts to tackle leading causes of urban deaths World Health Organization launched a new report ”The power of cities: tackling noncommunicable diseases and road safety” …

National Guideline on Drug Resistant TB Management 2019, Nepal Risk Population for DR-TB (Ref. Page no. 11) The following categories of TB patients are at risk of having DR-TB and need …

National Tuberculosis Management Guideline 2019, Nepal Introduction (Ref. Page no. 1) This guideline is to provide basic information about TB and its management to all health workers in Nepal. Early …

A milestone for humanity: Two strains of polio are now eradicated Global eradication of wild poliovirus type 3 declared on World Polio Day 24 October 2019 (WHO) In an historic …

International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2019 The international lead poisoning prevention week of action is observed on 20 to 26 October 2019. This action is particularly focused on eliminating lead …