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Shaping WHO’s future in the Region: voices from our country representatives
20 December, Cairo, Egypt – From 25 to 27 November 2025, World Health Organization (WHO) representatives from across the Eastern Mediterranean Region came together to reflect on their shared vision for health in a rapidly changing global landscape and identify practical pathways to move from vision to action and drive WHO’s mission across diverse...
Working together for healthy ageing
On 8–10 December 2025, the Qatari Ministry of Public Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) held a capacity-building training-of-trainers workshop on integrated care for older people (ICOPE) for participants from Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan. The workshop was sponsored and generously supported by His Excellency the Minister of Public Health...
WHO warns of dangerous escalation of attacks on health care in Sudan
PORT SUDAN / CAIRO / GENEVA, 19 December 2025 — Attacks on health care in Sudan are becoming deadlier and more widespread, cutting off access to lifesaving services and placing health workers and humanitarian operations at serious risk, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since the conflict began in April 2023, WHO has verified 201...
WHO and Unitaid partner to expand equitable access to lifesaving health products in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
26 November 2025, Cairo, Egypt – On 30 October 2025, the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and Unitaid signed a letter of mutual understanding to continue cooperation to ensure equitable access to affordable, adapted and quality-assured health products and services for priority areas, including HIV, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, women’s...
WHO and ICDT announce launch of Coalition on Islamic Financing Towards Global Health
15 December 2025, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Islamic Centre for Development of Trade (ICDT), a subsidiary organ of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), today announced the launch of a new Coalition on Islamic Financing Towards Global Health. The announcement was made at the High-Level...
Statement by Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director preceding the High-Level Roundtable on Promoting Investment in Global Health through Islamic Financing
14 December 2025 Ladies and gentlemen, members of the media, Thank you for joining us ahead of the High-Level Islamic Financing Roundtable in Riyadh. Today’s briefing offers the context needed to report on a rapidly emerging opportunity to expand fiscal space for global health. Health systems worldwide face mounting strain: tighter budgets,...
WHO and ReAct Africa join forces to combat antimicrobial resistance
6 December 2025, Cairo, Egypt – On 6 December 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and ReAct Africa signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen efforts against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This strategic partnership aims to enhance collaboration across countries in the Region and...
Remarks by Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director at the 24th Arab Conference on Modern Methods in Hospital Management “The Role of the Private and Third Sectors in Strengthening Health Systems”
10 December 2025, Muscat Your Excellency Dr Ahmed Mandhari, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Planning and Health Organization, Your Excellency Dr Nasser Al-Qahtani, Director-General of the Arab Administrative Development Organization, Your Excellency Mr Khalid Suliman Alsaleem, Managing Director, Mouwasat Medical Services Company, Your...
Remarks by Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director at the Certification of Healthy Governorates in Bahrain
10 December 2025 His Excellency General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Minister of Interior His Excellency Lieutenant General Dr Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Health Her Excellency Dr Jalila bint Al-Sayed Jawad Hassan, Minister of Health His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al...
Artificial intelligence for health emergencies: WHO advances public health intelligence and surveillance through innovation
10 December 2025, Cairo, Egypt – Last week in Amman, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) convened the Region’s first workshop to launch the All-Hazards Information Management (AIM) Toolkit and build artificial intelligence (AI) literacy for emergency information management. Led by WHO Regional Office for...
