Working Group on Health Cooperation


 

This working group serves as a platform to promote multilateral and bilateral coordination among the six countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion, particularly for cross-border health initiatives.

An annual meeting of the WGHC, development partners, civil society organizations, and other relevant organizations working on health cooperation in the subregion is held in the last quarter of each year. It is a forum for strategic discussion and planning. The annual meeting is hosted and chaired by a GMS country, rotating on an alphabetical basis.

 

Regional Workshop on Improving Laboratory Services and Infection Prevention and Control in the GMS

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized the Regional Workshop on Improving Laboratory Services and Infection Prevention and Control in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) on 4 to 5 June 2018 in Mandalay, Myanmar. The participants were government officials, laboratory services focal persons, infection prevention and control experts from Ministry of Health of Cambodia, Lao PDR Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam; and representatives from ADB and development partners (JICA, USAID, FAO and URC).

The overall objective of the workshop was to improve the quality of laboratory services and infection prevention control capacity within GMS related to emerging and infectious diseases and communicable disease control.

High-level Launching of the Greater Mekong Subregion Health Security Project

High-level Launching of the Greater Mekong Subregion Health Security Project

A high-level gathering was organized by ADB on 6 July 2017 at Sofitel Hotel in Bangkok to officially launch the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Health Security Project and endorse the declaration for the GMS health security and future health collaboration among countries in the GMS.

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