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About WHO South-East Asia

One of the six WHO Regions, WHO South-East Asia is home to over 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 11 Member States to address persisting and emerging epidemiological and demographic challenges.

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Technical Brief: Enhancing Readiness for Omicron (‎B.1.1.529)‎ in the WHO South-East Asia Region Interim Document WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia 27 November 2021

Priority actions for the countries in South-East Asia Regin • Enhance surveillance and sequencing efforts to better understand circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants....

ILLICIT TRADE OF TOBACCO IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA REGION

Tobacco use is recognized as a global public health problem killing nearly 8 million people annually. Globally, an estimated 8.71 million deaths and 229.77...

Deinstitutionalization of people with mental health conditions in the WHO South-East Asia Region

Deinstitutionalization of mental health care is the process of shifting mental health care and support from long-stay psychiatric institutions to community...

Technical Brief: Enhancing readiness for a Nipah virus event in countries not reporting a Nipah virus event

Nipah virus infection is an emerging serious zoonotic disease transmitted to humans through infected animals (such as fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family...

Regional Director

Ms Saima Wazed

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Outbreaks and emergencies

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Ms Saima Wazed appointed Regional Director WHO South-East Asia at #EB154

Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

logo_apo The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (the APO) is a collaborative partnership of interested governments, international agencies, foundations, and researchers that promotes evidence-informed health systems policy regionally and in all countries in the Asia Pacific region.

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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.

Global Leprosy Programme Website

Evaluation Reports

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Polio-free certification of the WHO South-East Asia Region