Tag «WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia»

World AIDS Day – Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia

On World AIDS Day, the WHO South-East Asia Region joins global calls to End inequalities and End AIDS – the theme of this year’s commemoration. HIV continues to be a major global health issue, having claimed 36.3 million lives globally so far. In 2020, around 680 000 people died from HIV-related causes and 1.5 million …

Fortify, scale-up life-saving tobacco control measures across South-East Asia Region

By Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia More people than ever before are covered by life-saving tobacco control policies, including in the South-East Asia Region. That’s one of the findings of a new WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, which documents how 63% of the world’s population is now covered …