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WHO South-East Asia to strengthen regional collaboration to innovate, expa
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Member countries deliberated on strengthening comprehensive actions for the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease, elimination of neglected tropical diseases, enhancing regional health security, and promoting data-driven policymaking for advancing universal health coverage based o
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Bangladesh's Saima Wazed to lead World Health Organization's South-East As
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Saima Wazed has been nominated to lead the World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Region.
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WHO South-East Asia Region commits to prioritizing and investing more in p
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The Member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region have committed to prioritize investment in primary health care to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage.
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SEAHEARTS initiative to prevent cardiovascular diseases in WHO South-East
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The South-East Asia-HEARTS, also known as SEAHEARTS, has been initiated by countries across the region to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases.
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India taking steps to eliminate trans-fatty acids from national food suppl
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has said India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Thailand have taken steps to eliminate trans-fatty acids from their national food supplies, potentially benefiting over 1.7 billion people.
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78th UNGA session to see three high-level meetings on Health: WHO
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
"All three are among the eight flagship priority programmes that the WHO South-East Asia Region had identified in 2014 in discussion with Member countries," World Health Organization's Regional Director for South-East Asia Poonam Khetrapal Singh said in a statement on Thursday.
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We must adopt differential approach to reduce maternal, new-born, child de
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The health officials and experts, began deliberating strategies and interventions on Tuesday, to address gaps in quality and equitable health services and further accelerate the reduction of maternal, new-born and child deaths in the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEA).
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WHO South-East Asia region member countries adopt Gandhinagar declaration
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Regional Director WHO South-East Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh in her address to a ministerial meeting ‘Sustain, Accelerate, and Innovate to end TB in the South-East Asia Region’ on Thursday said: “Today, urgent action is needed more than ever to achieve our goal of a region free of tuberc
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WHO lauds countries for scaling up routine immunization, urges efforts mus
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia, in a press statement, said, "The countries and partners agencies must continue to and scale up efforts to identify the unvaccinated children, strengthen capacities of the health workforce, better understand and engage with vul
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Scaling up of efforts needed to prevent, detect, control hypertension: WHO
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"Hypertension is often called a 'silent killer' as many people are unaware of their problem which if left untreated, can lead to disability, poor quality of life or even a deadly heart attack or stroke," said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, adding th
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"Need to move from compartmental approach to convergent approach to reap b
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The minister was addressing the concluding day of the "Global Conference on Digital Health - Taking Universal Health Coverage to the Last Citizen" a co-branded event under India's G20 Presidency organized by WHO - South-East Asia Region in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family
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"India aims to launch global initiative on digital health as institutional
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The "Global Conference on Digital Health - Taking Universal Health Coverage to the Last Citizen" is a co-branded event under India's G20 Presidency organised by WHO - South-East Asia Region in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
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