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Highlights from Nepal

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8 May 2024
Highlights

Nepal launches Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness for Early Detection (SPEED) project
17 April 2024
Highlights

Enhancing road safety capacity through drink-driving countermeasures and helmet use: training of traffic police personnel in Madhesh Province
16 April 2024
Highlights

Ensuring continuity of essential health services post-earthquake in West Nepal
27 March 2024
Media release

Nepal joins the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines (GPACCM)

Brief News from Nepal

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5 June 2024
Departmental update

Workshop to administer Tracking AMR Country self-assessment Survey (TrACSS) held
3 June 2024
Departmental update

Provincial Cross-Sectoral Stakeholders' Tabletop Exercise held in Karnali, Lumbini and Sudurpashchim province
30 May 2024
Departmental update

Provincial One Health Workshop held
22 May 2024
Departmental update

Inception meeting to enhance Respiratory Syncytial Virus surveillance held

News from the South-East Asia Region

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5 June 2024
Statement

World Environment Day

World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5th, after it was established at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Led by the United Nations Envir ...

31 May 2024
News release

NIMHANS gets 2024 Nelson Mandela Award for Health Promotion

The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) from India was honoured with the 2024 Nelson Mandela Award for Health Promotion at the Seventy-seventh World Hea ...

31 May 2024
Statement

World No Tobacco Day

In 1987, Member States of the World Health Organization designated 31 May as World No Tobacco Day. This was done to draw attention to the global tobacco epidemic, and the preventab ...

28 May 2024
News release

Asia-Pacific countries sound the alarm and commit to tackling antimicrobial resistance

Health leaders from countries and areas of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions today sounded the alarm and committed to work together to ...

Global News

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7 June 2024
Departmental update

WHO and Italian National Institute of Health sign memorandum of understanding to improve care for healthy ageing

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Dementia Observatory (Osservatorio Demenze) have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to formalize a close collaboratio ...

6 June 2024
Departmental update

Colombia adopts key convention to strengthen vehicle safety
6 June 2024
Departmental update

Alert on Philip Morris-funded Foundation name change to Global Action to End Smoking

WHO urges governments and the public health community to remain vigilant and prioritize genuine, independent public health efforts to end tobacco and nicotine use.
6 June 2024
News release

Mr José Luis Castro appointed as WHO Director-General Special Envoy for Chronic Respiratory Diseases

The World Health Organization (WHO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr José Luis Castro as WHO Director-General Special Envoy for Chronic Respiratory Diseases. Chronic re ...