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World Health Day 2024 Art Competition
To celebrate World Health Day 2024, the World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office is organizing an art competition on the theme ‘My Health, My Right.’ We invite people of …
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Ms Saima Wazed takes charge as Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia
New Delhi | February 1, 2024: Ms Saima Wazed today assumed charge as Regional Director for World Health Organization South-East Asia Region. Ms Wazed is the first from Bangladesh and …
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Ms Saima Wazed appointed WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia
January 23, 2024: Ms Saima Wazed was confirmed today as the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the South-East Asia by the WHO Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland. Related …
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WHO South-East Asia to strengthen regional collaboration to innovate and expand public health gains
The Seventy-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia concluded today with health ministers and senior delegates from Member countries reiterating their commitment to sustain and expand the …
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Health Ministers meet next week on priority issues, to nominate next WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia
New Delhi | October 28, 2023: Health Ministers and senior officials from Member countries are meeting here next week to deliberate on priority health issues and nominate the next World Health …
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List of Candidates for WHO SEARO Regional Director
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the candidates for the next WHO SEARO Regional Director. The SEARO Regional Committee will nominate the next Regional Director during its upcoming session. …
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WHO South-East Asia Region commits to further enhance efforts to end TB, adopt Gandhinagar Declaration
The WHO South-East Asia Region, that bears a disproportionate burden of nearly half of the global TB cases and deaths, today committed to further accelerate efforts to end tuberculosis by …
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Information on the election of WHO Regional Directors
The process for electing the Regional Directors of the Eastern Mediterranean (EMR), South East Asia (SEAR) and Wester Pacific (WPR) regions of WHO, respectively, started in Spring 2023. Regional Directors …
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WHO South-East Asia Region lauds countries for routine immunization coverage scale-up, says accelerated efforts must continue
The World Health Organization South-East Asia Region today complimented member countries for scaling up childhood immunization coverage to pre-pandemic levels and called for continued intensified efforts with a focus on …