WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia – Report of the Seventieth Session

Abstract

The Regional Committee for South-East Asia is the World Health Organization’sgoverning body in the South-East Asia Region, with representatives from all 11Member States of the Region. It meets in September every year to review progressin health development in the Region, formulate resolutions on health issues forthe Member States, as well as to consider the regional implications of World HealthAssembly resolutions, among others.This report summarizes the discussions of the Seventieth Session of the WHORegional Committee for South-East Asia held on Paradise Island, Maldives, on 6–10September 2017. At this session, the Committee reviewed and discussed a numberof public health issues relevant and important to the Region, such as hepatitis,vector control, tuberculosis, access to medicines and the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals, among others. The Committee also adopted a number of resolutions anddecisions on selected issues.