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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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Saima Wazed
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22 May 2024
100 strides @ 100 days
The WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, Saima Wazed, assumed office on 1 February 2024. Within 100 days, Ms Wazed has rolled out a defining vision...
25 March 2025
Joint national/international Expanded Programme on Immunization and vaccine preventable disease surveillance...
The joint national/international Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and vaccine-preventable disease surveillance review and post-introduction evaluation...
21 March 2025
Compendium of best practices and case studies in quality of care, patient safety, infection prevention...
Best practices refer to established methods, techniques or approaches that have consistently demonstrated sustainable results or outcomes in a particular...
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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.
Saima Wazed appointed Regional Director WHO South-East Asia at #EB154
Polio-free certification of the WHO South-East Asia Region
SEARO Care: an initiative tailored to promote and protect staff mental health and wellbeing
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