Seventy-ninth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

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Provisional Agenda

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Introduction to the Regional Director’s Annual Report on the Work of WHO in the South-East Asia Region covering the period 1 January to 31 December 2025

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Human resources for health: Equity in specialized care

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Results Report (Programme Budget 2024–2025: Performance Assessment) and financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025

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Financing, implementation and Performance framework of the Programme Budget 2026–2027

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Proposed Programme Budget 2028–2029

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Evaluation: Annual report

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Annual report on monitoring progress on UHC and health-related SDGs

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Accelerating the last mile: A people-centred multidisease elimination approach for the WHO South-East Asia Region

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Closing the gap to ‘End TB’: Strategic priorities for the WHO South-East Asia Region

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Improving access to quality medical devices including in vitro diagnostics through a life-cycle approach

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Health facility resilience

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Establishment of the South-East Asia Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Network (SEA-DAC)

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Progress reports on selected Regional Committee resolutions and decisions
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Provide health

• South-East Asia Regional Action Plan to implement the Global Strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol (2014–2025) (SEA/RC67/R4)
• Ending preventable maternal, newborn and child mortality in the South-East Asia Region in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Global Strategy on women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (SEA/RC69/R3);
• Beginning of the Decade of Action for ending viral hepatitis, HIV and STIs as public health threats by 2030 in the South-East Asia Region (SEA/RC74(4)) and paragraph 31 of the document SEA/RC75/15);
• Paro Declaration by the Health Ministers of Member States at the Seventy-fifth session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia on universal access to people-centred mental health care and services (SEA/RC75/R1);
  • Regional Action Plan and targets for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (2013–2020)(SEA/RC66/R6)
  • Monitoring progress and the acceleration plan for NCDs, including oral health and integrated eye care, in the South-East Asia Region (SEA/RC75/R2); and
  • Extending and expanding the ‘Regional Milestones’ of SEAHEARTS: an initiative to reduce CVD burden in the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEA/RC78(7));
• Enhancing social participation in support of primary health care and universal health coverage (SEA/RC75/R3);
• Ministerial Declaration on adolescent-responsive health systems (SEA/RC77/R1).
• Measles and rubella elimination with Interruption of transmission of indigenous measles and rubella virus by 2026 (SEA/RC77/R3);

• Challenges in polio eradication (SEA/RC60/R8);
• WHO South-East Asia Region Member States’ Declaration on collective response to COVID-19 (SEA/RC73/R1);
• Expanding the corpus of the South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund (SEARHEF) (SEA/RC77/R2);

• Strategic Action Plan to reduce the double burden of malnutrition in the South-East Asia Region 2016–2025 (SEA/RC69/R5).

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Key issues arising out of the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly and the 158th and the 159th Sessions of the WHO Executive Board

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Review of the Draft Provisional Agenda of the 160th Session of the WHO Executive Board

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Review of resolutions and decisions adopted by past sessions of the Regional Committee for South-East Asia

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Status of the SE Asia Regional Office Building

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Preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PRSEAH)

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UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases: Joint Coordinating Board (JCB) – Report on attendance at JCB in 2006 and nomination of a member in place of Bangladesh whose term expires on 31 December 2026

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UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP): Policy and Coordination Committee (PCC) – Report on attendance at PCC in 2026 and nomination of a member in place of India whose term expires on 31 December 2026

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Time and place of future Sessions of the Regional Committee