The five-day regional committee meeting will be on environmental health, the sustainable development goals, the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases.

‘The meeting hopes to formulate policies to support western Pacific countries combat the diseases in a bid to sustain the WHO goals.’

At the meeting, the statement said "progress report on HIV and sexually transmitted infections, expanded program on immunisation, disability prevention and rehabilitation including blindness" will also be discussed. 




"Regional action plan for healthy newborn infants, anti-microbial resistance and essential medicines" are also among the health topics for discussions on the table, the statement said.
Source-IANS