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