The World Health Organization has recommended the South-East Asian countries to strengthen their emergency medical teams to be better prepared to respond to public health emergencies.
WHO South-East Asian countries convened to discuss closing measles' immunity gap and to accelerate elimination efforts.
In 2013, as many as 316 000 people were killed in road crashes in Southeast Asia.
There is a need for individuals, communities and countries to talk more openly about depression.
In a major public health feat, WHO South-East Asia Region has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus with all districts across the 11 countries having reduced the cases to less one than per 1 000 live births.
Implementing a monumental change in vaccination that is expected to bring the world closer to eradicating all types of polio, all 11 countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region have 'switched' from using the traditionally used trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) that protects against the remaining wild poliovirus strains.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday urged southeast Asian countries to strengthen surveillance and preventive measures against Zika virus, already reported in 22 countries and territories in central and South America. .
WHO South-East Asia Region completes five years without any case of wild polio virus.
World Health Day 2013: WHO alarmed at rising blood pressure!
WHO elects Indian as its southeast Asia director after 46 years
SE Asia health ministers vow to eradicate measles
India to have separate drug controller for alternative medicine
Delhi to host a conference on alternative healing methods from India and Asia
Bihar's suspected polio case negative
Polio back in the country?
South East Asia on target to be polio-free by 2014: WHO
Tuberculosis responsible for 5 lakh deaths in South East Asia every year: WHO
India has highest number of MDR-TB cases in South East Asia: WHO (World Tuberculosis Day)
The World Health Organization has recommended the South-East Asian countries to strengthen their emergency medical teams to be better prepared to respond to public health emergencies.
WHO South-East Asian countries convened to discuss closing measles' immunity gap and to accelerate elimination efforts.
In 2013, as many as 316 000 people were killed in road crashes in Southeast Asia.
There is a need for individuals, communities and countries to talk more openly about depression.
In a major public health feat, WHO South-East Asia Region has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus with all districts across the 11 countries having reduced the cases to less one than per 1 000 live births.
Implementing a monumental change in vaccination that is expected to bring the world closer to eradicating all types of polio, all 11 countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region have 'switched' from using the traditionally used trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) that protects against the remaining wild poliovirus strains.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday urged southeast Asian countries to strengthen surveillance and preventive measures against Zika virus, already reported in 22 countries and territories in central and South America. .
WHO South-East Asia Region completes five years without any case of wild polio virus.
World Health Day 2013: WHO alarmed at rising blood pressure!
WHO elects Indian as its southeast Asia director after 46 years
SE Asia health ministers vow to eradicate measles
India to have separate drug controller for alternative medicine
Delhi to host a conference on alternative healing methods from India and Asia
Bihar's suspected polio case negative
Polio back in the country?
South East Asia on target to be polio-free by 2014: WHO
Tuberculosis responsible for 5 lakh deaths in South East Asia every year: WHO
India has highest number of MDR-TB cases in South East Asia: WHO (World Tuberculosis Day)
