Immunization is a priority for all countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region, and political commitment at the highest level has led to great progress over the past decade. Howev ...

The Sixty-sixth meeting of the Regional Committee for South East Asia, in 2013, adopted the regional goal of measles elimination and rubella control by 2020. To provide impetus to ...

The South-East Asia has been free of wild poliovirus since 2011. In order to maintain this status and keep the population protected countries must ensure that population immunity r ...

In the WHO South-East Asia Region, maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) is no longer a major public health problem. Following more than two decades of collective efforts, in May 201 ...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a mosquito-borne disease, characterized by inflammation of the brain. Currently, 10 out of 11 countries in the SEA Region are endemic for JE (with the ...

What is Hepatitis B? Hepatitis B is a viral infection that attacks the liver. It causes both acute and chronic disease that can lead to liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. It is a ma ...

New and increasingly sophisticated vaccines have become available in the last decade to provide protection against a growing number of diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and c ...

Access to affordable vaccines of assured quality is central to the performance of immunization programmes. A positive enabling environment for vaccine development requires longer-t ...