Tehran hosts sixty-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean from 14 to 17 October 2019.
Health ministers and high-level representatives of the 22 countries and territories of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, partner organizations and civil society, will take part in the Sixty-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, from 14 to 17 October 2019.
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Key technical health issues on this year's agenda will include:
- ending preventable newborn, child and adolescent deaths
- strengthening nursing and midwifery
- strengthening the hospital sector
- developing national institutional capacity for evidence-informed policy-making for health
- accelerating regional implementation of the UN Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases
The 4-day programme will also include progress reports on: eradication of poliomyelitis; health, environment and climate change; civil registration and vital statistics systems; implementation of the Eastern Mediterranean vaccine action plan and regional malaria action plan; mental health care; implementation of the regional framework on cancer prevention and control; and implementation of the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance.
Source: WHO