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About WHO South-East Asia
One of the six WHO Regions, WHO South-East Asia is home to a quarter of the world’s population.
Committed to building a better, healthier future for the nearly two billion people in the Region, WHO is working with the 10 Member States to address persisting and emerging epidemiological and demographic challenges.
Officer-in-Charge
WHO South-East Asia Regional Director Saima Wazed is currently on leave.
During this period, Dr Catharina Boehme is serving as Officer-in-Charge.
Regional Director
Saima Wazed
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Annual Report 2025
7 April 2026
The work of WHO in the South-East Asia Region: Report of the Regional Director 1 January–31 December...
The Annual Report documents the first year of action by WHO and its Member States to implement WHO’s Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW14)...
The Banyan Framework
7 April 2026
Rooted in partnership, growing through challenge: The Banyan Framework for Health and Well-Being in the...
The Banyan Framework for Health and Well-Being in the WHO South-East Asia Region (2026–2028) sets out a clear, country-focused path to protect recent...
Evaluation reports
Prioritization update
Global Leprosy Programme
The Global Leprosy Programme (GLP) of the World Health Organization is housed in the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (and not in the Organization’s headquarters in Geneva). It is the Organization’s designated programme for addressing leprosy worldwide. Being classified as one of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the unit works in close collaboration with the Department of Control of NTDs in HQ, designated focal points in all regions, national leprosy programmes and partners.
Reassignment of Indonesia
Indonesia reassigned to WHO Western Pacific Region
On 23 May 2025, at the Seventy-eighth session of the World Health Assembly Member States approved the request from the Government of Indonesia for the country’s reassignment from the South-East Asia Region to the Western Pacific Region.
World Health Day 2026
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22 April 2026
08th edition, Epidemiological Bulletin WHO Health Emergencies Programme WHO Regional Office for South-East...
This epidemiological bulletin aims to provide the situation of key infectious diseases in the WHO South-East Asia region to inform risk assessments and...
The WHO South-East Asia Regional Meeting on Eye Health was convened to address the substantial and persistent burden of avoidable vision impairment in...
8 April 2026
07th edition, Epidemiological Bulletin WHO Health Emergencies Programme WHO Regional Office for South-East...
This epidemiological bulletin aims to provide the situation of key infectious diseases in the WHO South-East Asia region to inform risk assessments and...
7 April 2026
The work of WHO in the South-East Asia Region: Report of the Regional Director 1 January–31 December...
The Annual Report documents the first year of action by WHO and its Member States to implement WHO’s Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW14)...