New UNICEF and WHO data show strong government commitments, investments, and partnerships have propelled South Asia to achieve its highest-ever immunization coverage. South Asia ...

The World Health Organization urges countries in South-East Asia Region to strengthen surveillance and for people to take protective measures in view of the increasing numbers of c ...

To integrate pandemic vaccines in national immunization programme in countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region, vaccine regulators, and officials from WHO today began deliberatin ...

The Seventy-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia commenced today with health ministers and senior delegates from Member countries converging in India to ...

COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected influenza related (a) sentinel surveillance, (b) laboratory diagnosis, (c) evidence-based interventions, (d) data reporting for national, regi ...

Every year more than 10 million people fall ill from tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that mainly affects the lungs. Despite being preventable and curable, TB disease claim ...

Bangladesh with the support of WHO and partners scaled up infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes using targeted measures in Cox’s Bazar to 100% of health facilities by A ...

Despite high vaccination and high seroprevalence rates in many countries, outbreaks of COVID-19 continue to occur in many WHO regions resulting in significant morbidity and mortali ...

New Delhi, 30 May 2022: Immediate and early response to disasters and emergencies are crucial to saving lives. The WHO’s South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund (SEARHEF) si ...

New Delhi, 23 March 2022: Now third year into the COVID-19 pandemic, for WHO South-East Asia Region enhancing capacities of laboratories to test for SARS-CoV2 continues to be one o ...

A year ago, when WHO declared COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, countries in WHO South-East Asia Region were either responding to their first cases of importation or cluster of cases o ...