Sixty-third session

• WHO Director-General addresses health officials in the Western Pacific
  Keynote address to the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, Sixty-third session

• Speech by Dr Shin Young-soo, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific, at the Opening Ceremony of the Sixty-third session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific

• Keynote speech by Dr Shin Young-soo, Regional Director for the Western Pacific, at the Sixty-third session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific

News releases

• Western Pacific Region nearing 2012 milestone in hepatitis B control
• WHO calls for strategic investments in HIV to halt new infections
• Scale up measures to counter artemisinin-resistant malaria, WHO urges
• WHO urges increased investments in health for achieving universal health coverage
• WHO urges countries to meet health-related MDGs
• WHO calls for setting targets and indicators to intensify efforts against noncommunicable diseases
• WHO pushes for Healthy Settings approaches to safeguard people's health
• WHO's governing body reviews IHR implementation in the Western Pacific Region
• WHO gives full support to Australia's plain tobacco packaging
• Countries in the Western Pacific Region push for measles elimination
• Seven neglected tropical diseases set for elimination
• WHO alarmed by high level of violence and injuries
• WHO calls for expanded nutrition interventions to avert child deaths
• WHO's work in the Western Pacific Region under review

Media registration

Journalists are welcome to cover the session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Accreditation is required.

Journalists should write to the WHO Public Information Office at PIO@wpro.who.int with the following information:

• Name:
• News organization:
• Contact information:
• E-mail address:
• Telephone:
• Mobile:
• Web address:

Journalists who plan to travel to Hanoi can both seek accreditation and reserve a discounted hotel room (depending on availability) online at:

• www.wpro.who.int/rcm/register.

Media badges will be presented at the meeting site at the Melia Hanoi Hotel.

WHO experts will be available for interviews about the health topics that will be covered in Hanoi, including the rising prevalence of noncommunicable diseases, violence and injury prevention, neglected tropical diseases, tobacco control, malaria and artemisinin resistance, HIV prevention and treatment, measles elimination, the health-related Millennium Development Goals and health financing.