The World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office) region has the highest proportion of countries in crisis and emergency at the moment. It’s a region with many young people who have the right to a peaceful and healthy life, to good education, and an environment that lets them shape their own future. We must continue to be strong advocates for respecting dignity and fundamental rights to health, and above all, peace. #WHA77 | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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The World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office) region has the highest proportion of countries in crisis and emergency at the moment. It’s a region with many young people who have the right to a peaceful and healthy life, to good education, and an environment that lets them shape their own future. We must continue to be strong advocates for respecting dignity and fundamental rights to health, and above all, peace. #WHA77 | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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In the west of Rafah, Gaza, the World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office) reports a rise in child malnutrition cases, with 25 tragic deaths. Thanks to the EU’s support, 3 WHO-backed treatment centers are operational, providing training, vital medical supplies and are equipped to tackle severe malnutrition. © WHO | EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid
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In the west of Rafah, Gaza, the World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office) reports a rise in child malnutrition cases, with 25 tragic deaths. Thanks to the EU’s support, 3 WHO-backed treatment centers are operational, providing training, vital medical supplies and are equipped to tackle severe malnutrition. © WHO | EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid
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Regional strategy for fostering digital health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Regional strategy for fostering digital health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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📹Watch the full press briefing on health emergencies in the Eastern Mediterranean that took place on 13 May 2025. | World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office)
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📹Watch the full press briefing on health emergencies in the Eastern Mediterranean that took place on 13 May 2025. | World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office)
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The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) announced the inauguration of its UAE office in Abu Dhabi, a development set to solidify its presence in the country and strengthen its regional strategic network of partners and collaborators. -- أعلنت الشبكة الشرق أوسطية للصحة المجتمعية (امفنت ) عن افتتاح مكتبها الجديد في دولة الإمارات العربية, أبوظبي، في تطور يهدف إلى ترسيخ وجودها في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، وتعزيز شبكتها الاستراتيجية الإقليمية مع الشركاء من الجهات المختلفة. | Ea
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The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) announced the inauguration of its UAE office in Abu Dhabi, a development set to solidify its presence in the country and strengthen its regional strategic network of partners and collaborators. -- أعلنت الشبكة الشرق أوسطية للصحة المجتمعية (امفنت ) عن افتتاح مكتبها الجديد في دولة الإمارات العربية, أبوظبي، في تطور يهدف إلى ترسيخ وجودها في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، وتعزيز شبكتها الاستراتيجية الإقليمية مع الشركاء من الجهات المختلفة. | Ea
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The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) stands at the crossroads of complex health challenges caused by conflict, migration, and climate change. Our latest issue of the EMPHNET Emergency Bulletin focuses on understanding these intersections and driving collective action to mitigate their impact. 🔗 For more information, go to: https://bit.ly/4hvUjWc | Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network
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The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) stands at the crossroads of complex health challenges caused by conflict, migration, and climate change. Our latest issue of the EMPHNET Emergency Bulletin focuses on understanding these intersections and driving collective action to mitigate their impact. 🔗 For more information, go to: https://bit.ly/4hvUjWc | Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network
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Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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Keep the hope alive. Support health care in emergencies by clicking here: https://bit.ly/405idS5 Hospitals are crumbling under the strain of conflict and climate disasters. Health workers face heartbreaking choices, battling shortages of supplies. But you can make a difference. By contributing to WHO, you help deliver life-saving health care to millions: 🔹 15M in Sudan battling diseases, injuries, hunger, displacement and floods 🔹 1.5M children in Somalia suffering acute malnutrition, with 4.3
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In a Region facing increasingly complex #HealthEmergencies – from #DiseaseOutbreaks to climate shocks and conflict – timely, coordinated action is essential to save lives. @WHOEMRO has launched the AIM Toolkit, an AI-powered solution that enables countries to act faster by transforming global guidance into rapid, country-specific action. This innovation ensures no community is left behind, helping countries act faster when lives are at stake. Read the full press release: https://www.emro.who.int
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Ensuring WHO readiness for emergencies
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Our region faces increasingly diverse emergencies, both natural and man-made. In the face of the immediate damage to people’s health and homes, we can’t forget noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or cancer. They are manageable in stable times – but can quickly become life-threatening during crises, especially when access to essential medications is disrupted. Together, we can protect vulnerable people during emergencies! #NCDs #Emergency #Resilience | WHO Regional
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“Health security depends on trust, coordination, and shared learning across sectors, borders, and regions.” In this interview, Eng. Bilal Shtaiyat, Director of Preparedness and Response for Threats and Emergencies at Jordan Center For Disease Control (JCDC) المركز الوطني لمكافحة الأوبئة والأمراض السارية , explains how sharing experiences, both successes and failures, helps countries build trust and respond faster to outbreaks. Drawing on Jordan’s joint simulation exercise with Iraq and its natio
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🔵Regional Director Dr Hanan Balkhy's message on World Antimicrobial resistance Week World Antimicrobial resistance Awareness Week is our time to come together and take action against one of the biggest health threats of our time—antimicrobial resistance. When antimicrobials stop working, simple infections become deadly. We lose the ability to perform safe surgeries, protect mothers and newborns, and save lives. This is not a future threat—it is already happening. As we mark WAAW 2025, I am prou
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This week, WHO/EMRO launched the Regional Framework for Defeating Meningitis, aligning with the 2030 global roadmap. Meningitis remains a devastating disease in our region—over 250,000 cases and 110,000 cases of bacterial meningitis were reported in 2021 alone, with about half of all cases and deaths affecting children under five. One in five survivors faces lifelong disabilities. But there is hope. The new framework sets out a bold vision: a world free of meningitis. By 2030, we aim to: ✅Elimin
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Held on the eve of the Seventy-second Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean #EMRC72, United to End Polio brought together governments, partners and donors to reaffirm their collective resolve to finish the fight against polio. Discussions highlighted innovative strategies to reach children in the most challenging settings, the Region’s unwavering political and financial commitment, and the dedication of frontline health workers driving progress every day. The event
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#FranklySpeaking: What difference would a ceasefire make to #Gaza’s health crisis? WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) Regional Director Hanan Balkhy explains I Full episode: https://arab.news/bcnpd | Arab News
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“To effectively carry out our work, especially in emergency contexts, health must be prioritized by all parties to conflict as a fundamental right, and the sanctity of health must be respected. This means ensuring that people have access to functioning health services.” - Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean | World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office)
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Every dollar invested in WHO produces 35 dollars’ worth of health gains. The WHO investment round aims to save at least 40 million more lives globally over the next four years. And ensure that 6 billion people will be able to live healthier lives, 5 billion can access health services without financial hardship and 7 billion are protected from health emergencies. To reach our targets in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, WHO and Member States have developed a strategic operational plan including t
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Health is a fundamental right. But in a world defined by borders – geopolitical, cultural, economic – that right is compromised. And in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, the problems are compounded by conflict, emergencies and huge social disparities. "We need to work together to deliver to the people we have committed to serve. To turn that commitment into action, we have developed a Strategic Operational Plan to address public health priorities and needs in every country of the Region. The cha
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The ceasefire in Gaza is a golden opportunity to scale up lifesaving health efforts. WHO aims to: 🔹deliver additional medical supplies and fuel 🔹establish temporary prefabricated clinics and hospitals to expand bed capacities and health services 🔹expand medical evacuations – at least 12,000 patients still need special care and treatment outside of Gaza. Watch Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative to the occupied Palestinian territory | World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regi
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#EMRC59 | Patient safety begins with patient involvement
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