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Celebrating 20 years of regional commitment to in South and South-East Asia!

Earlier this week, Neeraj Jain, Director - Growth Operations, Asia, Middle East and Europe, participated in a powerful side event on Kala-azar elimination, held during the 78th Session of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Committee.

Co-hosted by the Governments of India and Nepal, DNDi, the Gates Foundation, and WHO-SEARO, this session offered partners and stakeholders a chance to reflect on two decades of progress and collaboration since the signing of the Regional MoU for kala-azar elimination.

At PATH, we have been proud to support countries like Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka through technical assistance that has helped not only in kala-azar elimination but also in advancing integrated platforms for vector-borne disease control. This work has included:

🔹 Integrated workshops and trainings
🔹 Point-of-care suitcase labs for multiple diseases
🔹 Pharmacovigilance and outbreak investigations
🔹 High-grade fever surveillance with multi-etiology approaches
🔹 Integrated data management and community-based case search

Now we must look ahead, embedding multi-disease elimination into national health systems. This would not only require political leadership and global guidelines, but also cross-border collaboration, integrated disease surveillance across the region, and pooled funding.

This is the perfect moment to recommit and work toward a people-centered, integrated public health vision for South Asia.

🎥 Watch the full discussion here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/jDWDH156Wbk

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India | Ministry of Health and Population-Nepal | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare | Ministry of Health - Sri Lanka | Ministry of Health, Royal Government of Bhutan | J.P.Nadda | Dr Nalinda Jayatissa | Tandin Wangchuk | National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control, DGHS, MOHFW | Directorate General of Health Services | World Health Organization South-East Asia Region - WHO SEARO | Gates Foundation India | Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) | The END Fund | Uniting to Combat NTDs | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance | PHRD Nepal | One Health Bangladesh | BRAC | icddr,b
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Rethinking | Robust, integrated, laboratory-supported disease surveillance systems are the first line of defense not just against communicable diseases, but increasingly against noncommunicable ones as well. Yet, despite their critical importance, surveillance efforts remain fragmented, shaped by programmatic silos, government priorities, and donor preferences.

In today’s constrained funding landscape, convergence of efforts, resources, and data is not just desirable but essential. Across South Asia, countries like India, Bangladesh, and Nepal have established strong integrated surveillance networks, often with limited resources, but more needs to be done. The health systems of the future will not be built by adding new verticals or reinventing old ones. They will be built by strengthening connections between diseases, departments, disciplines, and digital platforms for data that cuts across.

Dr Satyabrata Routray, Director - Infectious Diseases, PATH South Asia, writes on the critical importance of strengthening integrated disease surveillance.

➡️ Read: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rethinking-global-health-integrated-disease-matters-now-routray-mfbqc

Drsatyabrata Routray | PATH | World Health Organization South-East Asia Region - WHO SEARO | Gates Foundation India | Ministry of Health and Population-Nepal | PHRD Nepal | UNICEF Bangladesh | UNICEF Nepal | UNICEF India | One Health Bangladesh | BRAC | Directorate General of Health Services | The Asia Foundation | icddr,b | ARK Foundation, Bangladesh | Oxford Policy Management a2i - Aspire to Innovate

Rethinking Global Health | Integrated Disease Surveillance matters – now more than ever! As someone who has spent over three decades working in public health across South Asia, I have witnessed firsthand how fragile health systems can be without access to timely and actionable quality data. Disease surveillance is at the heart of public health.

PATH India's Country Director and Director of Growth Operations, Asia, Middle East & Europe, Neeraj Jain, will join other distinguished panelists in a hybrid event at Catalyzing Change Week 2024 on Thursday, May 9, at 5:30 p.m. IST to discuss, “Igniting action in workplaces to tackle climate and health.”

Click here to register ➡️ https://bit.ly/3y5tMNr and walk away inspired to get your own organizations to enact meaningful change at the intersection of climate and health!





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Today, on , we reaffirm our commitment to . At PATH, we're proud to be at the forefront of the fight against this preventable and treatable disease.

Working tirelessly with our team, partners, and communities to , we're driving innovation, scaling up access to life-saving interventions and advocating for investing in TB prevention and services. But our work is far from over. With 10 million still affected and 1 million dying from TB each year, we must intensify our efforts and accelerate progress toward a TB-free world.

We urge leaders, donors, researchers, innovators, the private sector, and communities everywhere to invest their time, capacities, and resources in fighting TB.

👊 The message is clear: . Let's make it happen.