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10 October 2019
Local capacity building: training health staff to communicate with communities
In September, the Lao Ministry of Health’s Centre for Communication and Education on Health (CCEH) ran a series of workshops to teach risk communication skills. With the support of risk communicators from the WHO Country Office, they trained nearly a hundred provincial and district level staff.
Communities in Lao PDR make the difference in HIV response to end AIDS by 2030
1 December 2019, Vientiane Capital - World AIDS Day marked on 1 December brings forward the discussion on ending the AIDS epidemic by achieving “zero” by 2030: Zero New Infection, ...
Lao PDR steps up the fight against “super-bugs”
The Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry today launched a National Strategic Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance covering 2019 to 2023. This will guide a r ...
World Rabies Day
The Representatives of WHO and FAO joined the Vice Ministers of Health and Agriculture of Lao PDR to mark World Rabies Day. Central to the celebration was a mass vaccination of dog ...
Our work in Laos
Dr Mark Jacobs
WHO Representative to Lao People's Democratic Republic
Region’s leaders discuss need to protect health in relation to climate change and the environment
The seventieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific concluded today after discussions on climate change and environmental health.
Region’s health leaders pledge to tackle antimicrobial resistance and strengthen tobacco control
Health leaders at the seventieth session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific today endorsed action plans to fight antimicrobial resist ...
Regional action to protect children from harmful impact of food marketing and promote healthy ageing
Health ministers from across the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region today endorsed an action plan to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing ...
Health ministers endorse WHO five-year plan to make the Western Pacific the healthiest, safest region
Health ministers and senior officials representing the 37 countries and areas of the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region today agreed on priorities for WHO’s wor ...
Outbreaks and Emergencies in the Western Pacific
