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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-08-03)
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-18)The warming of the planet will be gradual but the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as intense storms, heat waves, droughts and floods could be abrupt - the consequences for health will be dramatic.Populations ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-16)The Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly in 2002 reaffirmed its commitment to the UNMillennium Declaration and the related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)through Resolution WHA 55.19. In 2002, the Fifty-fifth Session of ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-30)The Twenty-first Meeting of the Policy and Coordination Committee of the UNDP/UNFPA/ WHO/World Bank Special Programme for Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (“the Programme"), was held in ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-07-02)The Thirty-first meeting of the Joint Coordinating Board (JCB) was held inRio-de Janeiro, Brazil, from 16 to 18 June 2008. Representatives from the threeJCB Member countries of the South-East Asia (SEA) Region, namely ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-10)Part AThe WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia (SEA) through resolution SEA/RC60/R4 on scaling up prevention and control of chronicnoncommunicable diseases (NCDs) (Annex 1) endorsed the Regional Framework for Prevention ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-05)
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-28)International migration of the health workforce is a challenge for countries as it impedes the momentum of strengthening health systems. In response to Regional Committee Resolution SEA/RC60/R9 and to sustain the health ...
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Follow-up on selected resolutions/decisions of the last three years: challenges in polio eradication (WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-05)Despite major challenges, the polio eradication efforts in India successfully eliminated subtype-P1 polio cases from western Uttar Pradesh (UP) and also recorded the lowest number of P1 cases due to sustained efforts with ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-09)The South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund (SEARHEF) has been established to provide immediate financial assistance to Member countries for meeting their health requirements following an emergency.As a first step, ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-27)The Draft Provisional AGenda of the 124th session of the WHO Executive Board to be held from 19 to 27 January 2009 is attached for review by the Meeting of Advisory Committee ACM). The Provisional Agenda of ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-19)The attached working paper highlights the most significant and relevant decisions andresolutions emanating from the Sixty-first World Health Assembly (held from 19-24 May 2008) as well as the 122nd and 123rd Sessions of ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-02)This document lists the subjects of the Technical Discussions held since 1994 in conjunction with the sessions of the Regional Committee.It also provides a list of proposed subjects for the Technical Discussions to be held ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-10)The WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia deliberated and provided guidance on the subject of WHO and Reforms of the UN System during its Sixtieth session, held in Bhutan in 2007. This paper provides a comprehensive ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-04)WHO’s global Strategy for Health and Environment was formulated in 1993 as aresponse to the mandate given by the Global Commission for Sustainable Development for WHO to be the task master for coordinating the implementation ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-25)The HIV epidemic continues to take its toll in the SEA Region. Yet countries havedemonstrated that implementing an effective response is feasible, both to halt andreverse epidemics and to provide services to those in need. ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-25)The paper outlines the growing burden of emerging and re-emerging vector-borne diseases in the South East Asia Region. To prevent the emergence of new vector-borne diseases and re-emergence of those alreadyunder control, ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-06)The Fifty-eighth session of the Regional Committee in 2005 endorsed a resolution on Skilled care at every birth that urges Member countries, among others: “to review the gaps in human resources for skilled care at birth ...
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(WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2008-06-09)The tobacco epidemic is one of the major global public health problems today, whichis being fuelled by a variety of complex factors. The tobacco epidemic killed 100million people worldwide in the twentieth century and it ...