Indian Society for Malaria and Other Communicable Diseases "Honorary Fellowship" address by Dr Samlee Plianbangchang, Regional Director, World Health Organizaion, South East Asia Region.

Opening Remarks By Dr Samlee Plianbangchang Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia At Meeting of National Leprosy Programme Managers of WHO South-East Asia Region

Health situation in the South-East Asia Region: challenges for the next decade.

a World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. b Department of Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Jai P Narain (email: [email protected]) The South-East Asia (SEA) Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), home to 26% of the world popul...

Strategies of Preparedness against the Threat of Biological Warfare and Bioterrorism in South-East Asia

Risks associated with deliberate use of biological agents to harm human health and the need for a strong public health system are well recognized. In spite of infrequent occurrences of such episodes, the potential use of selected biological agents, with or without genetic alterations, is mounting everyday especially with growing political dissidence as well as religious and resource conflicts i...

Global Fund withdraws grants to Myanmar.

News Global Fund withdraws grants to Myanmar International agencies are scrambling to raise funds to maintain three fledgling health-care projects in Myanmar, after the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria withdrew grants to the country in August this year. Discussions are underway with donors in Norway, Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan to try to secure the survival of a p...

Southeast Asia intercountry consultative meeting on prevention and control of new, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases.

An intercountry meeting to identify strategies and approaches for tackling the problems of new, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases in the Southeast Asia region was held in New Delhi, India, August 21 to 25, 1995. Nine countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand) participated. Experts from these countries, England, and the United S...