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Opening Remarks by Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director at the Strengthening Health and Humanitarian Programme Delivery
9 November 2025 Good morning, It is truly a pleasure to be with you today as we mark almost ten years of collaboration between the World Health Organization and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre. Since its inception in 2015, KSrelief has been a steadfast ally to WHO and to the people of our Region—working with compassion,...
Keynote Speech by Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean at the Bahrain International Public Health Conference and Exhibition
06 November 2025, Manama Excellencies, Lieutenant General Dr Shaikh Mohamed Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Health, Dr Jaleela bint Al Sayed Jawad Hassan, Minister of Health, Distinguished colleagues and partners, It is a real pleasure to join you at Bahrain’s first International Public Health Conference and Exhibition. This event...
WHO strengthens trauma and nutrition care in Yemen’s high-risk districts with support from ECHO
06 November 2025, Aden, Yemen – With funding from European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), the World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up lifesaving trauma and nutrition services in high-risk and conflict-affected districts. The 12-month project aims to strengthen essential health and livesaving nutrition services and...
WHO strengthens the energy resilience of Yemeni health facilities with support from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
06 November 2025, Aden, Yemen – With generous funding from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED), the World Health Organization (WHO) is launching a new project to strengthen the energy resilience of Yemen’s health sector through the installation of solar energy systems and battery storage in 6 health facilities across the...
Opening remarks by Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean at the Global Forum for Public Procurement of Health Products
04 November 2025 – Gammarth, Tunisia Excellencies, Professor Mustapha Ferjani, Minister of Health, Distinguished delegates, colleagues, and partners, The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly reshaped how the world understands procurement and supply chains. It exposed the fragility of global markets, the inequities in access, and the reality that...
Highlights from the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the WHO Alliance for Food Safety in Oman
4 November, Muscat, Oman –– The WHO Alliance for Food Safety held its 2025 Annual General Meeting in Muscat from 28 to 30 October 2025. Hosted by the Food Safety and Quality Centre (FSQC), the 3-day meeting gathered over 90 national delegates and international experts, in person and virtually, from more than 30 countries. A platform for global...
IDS Partners’ meeting advances collaboration on disease surveillance in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
4 November 2025, Cairo, Egypt – The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean hosted the Integrated Disease Surveillance (IDS) Partners’ Meeting in Cairo in September 2025. The meeting brought together technical experts and international partners to strengthen collaboration on disease surveillance across the Eastern...
WHO condemns killings of patients and civilians amid escalating violence in El Fasher, Sudan
29 October 2025 – The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher. This latest tragedy is taking place in the rapidly worsening crisis in North Darfur’s El Fasher, where...
Immunization: progress and challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
27 October 2025 – The first annual progress report on the Strategic framework for the implementation of Immunization Agenda 2030 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region shows both progress and pressing challenges in vaccine equity and disease prevention. Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) envisions a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age,...
Advancing palliative care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
26 October 2025, Cairo, Egypt – Following the presentation of a comprehensive technical paper on palliative care during the Seventy-second session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, Member States endorsed resolution EM/RC72/R.4, signaling a transformative shift in how the Region supports individuals facing life-limiting illness,...
