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WHO's Health Emergency Appeal 2026
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Lao PDR’s Emergency Medical Team conducting exercises ahead of future deployments.
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The Western Pacific Region is home to almost 2.2 billion people across 38 countries and areas.
WHO is working with governments and partners across the Western Pacific to make this the healthiest and safest Region.
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Report of the Regional Director
1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025
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A mother with her child after vaccination at Yalobi Nursing Station, Waya island in Fiji.
A mother with her child after vaccination at Yalobi Nursing Station, Waya island in Fiji.
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All →Out-of-pocket (OOP) spending by households is a major way of financing health expenditure in many countries, often linking access to care with the ability...
25 February 2026
Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the one-hundredth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO...
The One-hundredth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on...
Monitoring air quality (for example collecting continuous and quality data) is integral and critical to detecting air pollutants and to ensuring information...
20 February 2026
WHO water, sanitation, hygiene and waste strategy 2026-2035
Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) still drive at least 1.4 million preventable deaths each year, while climate shocks, outbreaks, migration...
