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👩🏾👨🏾🦱 Skilled, motivated volunteers are working alongside WHO staff, Ministries of Health, and partners across the South-East Asia Region.
14 United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) are currently serving with WHO teams in 5⃣ countries, contributing to disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, mental health, communications, human resources, WASH, and resource mobilization.
Their work reflects a global partnership between WHO and UNV dating back to 1973 — five decades of collaboration in public health. 🫱🏽🫲🏾
Read more: who.int/southeastasia/news/f…
#ForEveryVolunteer #PartnersInPublicHealth #PublicHealth #SouthEastAsia #UNV
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.@WHO’s partnership with UN Volunteers helps respond to countries’ evolving needs by drawing on skilled professionals with diverse expertise and experience.
Their contributions reflect the breadth of WHO’s work and strengthen support to countries across the Region.
#ForEveryVolunteer #UNVolunteers #WHO #PublicHealth #UNV
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UN Volunteers bring more than energy and commitment to WHO’s work. Their specialized health knowledge and professional expertise strengthen country-level responses and help address evolving needs. As WHO's work continues to evolve in response to new health challenges, the partnership with UNV is evolving alongside it.
Christian Hainzl, Regional Manager for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Volunteers- In Asia and the Pacific alone, UNV can draw on a talent pool of more than 8,000 health-related professionals ready to contribute where their skills are needed most.
#ForEveryVolunteer #UNVolunteers #WHO #PublicHealth #UNV
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📰 WHO South-East Asia immunization experts meet focuses on measles outbreaks and closing immunity gaps
The Region has achieved the highest childhood immunization coverage levels globally but continues to face multiple measles and other disease outbreaks linked to persistent immunity gaps among children and adolescents.
The WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (SEAR-ITAG) meeting in Delhi is reviewing progress and priorities for protecting people from vaccine-preventable diseases.
The meeting will also examine progress on childhood and adolescent vaccination.
🔗: who.int/southeastasia/news/d…
#VaccinesSaveLives #VaccinesWork
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Immunization experts, Ministry of Health representatives, partners and key stakeholders today converged for a 3⃣-day meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (SEAR-ITAG).
Preventing and responding to #measles outbreaks and accelerating measles and rubella elimination predominates deliberations at this year’s annual meeting, which will review progress and provide technical guidance on other key priorities-
✅ Closing immunity gaps and reaching children who remain unvaccinated or under-vaccinated
✅ Strengthening surveillance and use of data to identify and address gaps
✅ Expanding vaccination across the life-course, including #HPV vaccination
✅ Sustaining #immunization programmes amid changing financing and health-system challenges
#VaccinesWork #HealthForAll #VaccinesSaveLives
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📍: WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (SEAR-ITAG)
“Measles outbreaks reflect persistent immunity gaps. We need to rethink how we deliver immunization so that vaccines reach everyone, especially those who are currently being missed” said Prof Rakesh Aggarwal, Chair of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group, at the inaugural of the 17th meeting of SEAR-ITAG.
Prof Aggarwal highlighted the need to look beyond overall vaccination coverage and focus on subnational and hard-to-reach communities where gaps persist.
Local data and epidemiology should guide focused immunization efforts for better use of resources and to reach the most vulnerable communities.
#VaccinesWork #Immunization #Measles #HealthForAll
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📍: WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (SEAR-ITAG)
Progress must not become complacency. While the Region has made important gains in immunization, persistent immunity gaps, inequities in coverage and ongoing measles outbreaks require targeted action. We need stronger use of local data, improved surveillance and catch-up vaccination to reach underserved and hard-to-reach populations, alongside sustained investment in immunization programmes. - Dr Nilesh Buddha, Officer-in-Charge, WHO South-East Asia Region.
#VaccinesWork #Immunization #Measles #HealthForAll
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Research saves lives. 🔬
Investment in TB research and innovation can speed up progress to end TB. New, effective diagnostics, medicines, and vaccines are key to reaching that goal.
Yes! We can #EndTB
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With an early diagnosis and appropriate treatment, childhood cancer is highly curable.
Every parent needs to learn these signs and symptoms of childhood cancer to save their children’s lives.
🔵Fever
🔵Easy bruising or bleeding
🔵Ongoing fatigue
🔵Severe and persistent headaches
🔵Bone pain
🔵Unexplained weight loss
🔵 Painless lumps and swelling
🔵 Pale skin
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #EarlyDetectionSavesLives #beatNCDs
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Do you know the most common types of cancer in children?
These are leukemias, brain tumours, lymphomas, and solid tumours such as neuroblastoma and Wilms tumour.
When cancer is found early and treatment begins without delay, a child has a far better chance of surviving and growing up healthy.
#ChildhoodCancerAwareness #EarlyDetectionSavesLives #beatNCDs
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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childhood cancer is rare, but it happens.
Here's the good news: most children with cancer can survive, using treatments that already exist today. Early diagnosis, generic medicines, surgery, and radiotherapy can give a child a real chance at recovery.
When childhood cancer services are within reach, many more children can be cured.
#ChildhoodCancerAwareness #EarlyDetectionSavesLives #beatNCDs
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When disaster strikes, every minute matters. ⏱️
The WHO South-East Asia Region faces frequent outbreaks and disasters that can overwhelm health systems within hours. Countries can't afford to wait for funding.
That's where #SEARHEF (South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund) steps in, providing rapid funding for life-saving action since 2008.
From 2026, SEARHEF welcomes governments, philanthropies, and private partners to help countries respond faster and build stronger resilience.
🎥 Watch the video 🤝 Partner with us.
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The flash floods that hit #Nepal 🇳🇵 in August damaged health infrastructure and disrupted routine vaccination services.
@WHO is on the ground, supporting the government to keep immunization going, protect people at increased risk and strengthen disease surveillance. 🛡️
💧 More than 50 000 people have received oral cholera vaccine in Rasuwa and Nuwakot as of 15 September.
👩⚕️ Tetanus-containing vaccines are also being provided to health workers, frontline responders and rescue workers working in high-risk environments.
🔗 Read more: who.int/nepal/news/detail/16…
#Immunization #VaccinesWork #FloodResponse #PublicHealth
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Health starts with empowered choices. Self-care interventions, from family planning to self-testing and digital health solutions, enable people to manage their sexual and reproductive health with confidence, dignity, and autonomy.
#HealthStartsHere #SelfCare #SRHMonth #MyHealthMyChoice #PrimaryHealthCare
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🕊️Peace is a foundation for health.
When communities live in #peace, people are better able to access essential health services, stay healthy and build healthier futures.
This International Day of Peace, let’s work towards a world where health and peace are within reach for everyone. 💙
#PeaceDay #InternationalDayOfPeace #HealthForAll #LeaveNoOneBehind
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World Health Organization South-East Asia retweeted
VIDEO | Delhi: WHO Representative to India Dr Yvan J-F Hutin on pharmacovigilance, says, "I think what we are working on this week is strengthening pharmacovigilance, to connect with the rational use of medication so that, as the State Minister (Anupriya Patel) was saying, India can not only become the pharmacy of the world, but also a leader in patient safety and pharmacovigilance. I think that's the strategic direction of the Ministry, and the one that we're very happy to support as WHO."
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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Sitting for long hours and physical inactivity are linked to non-communicable diseases.
Here are a few simple ways to stay active at work:
🚶 Move 5 mins every hour
🧘 Stretch at your desk
💻 Stand and work when you can
📞 Pace while on calls
🪑 Maintain proper posture
🪜 Take the stairs
🤸 Stretch daily, beyond your workout
Small moves, big health gains!
#BeatNCDs #WorkplaceHealth #PhysicalActivity #HealthyWorkplace
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#Dengue spreads through Aedes mosquito bites. Use repellent, sleep under nets, wear long sleeves and keep your surroundings clean to stop mosquito breeding.
Protect. Prevent. Stop Dengue. ✋
#StopDengue
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