ASEAN military medicine

Welcome to the ASEAN Center of Military Medicine (ACMM).

"One ASEAN, One Military Medical Team"

Advancing Integration and Wisdom for ASEAN Medical Resilience.

An entity associated with ASEAN and a subsidiary body under the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM), as listed in Annex 1 of the ASEAN Charter.

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Regional military medical cooperation for normal and crisis situations.

Focused on interoperability, medical readiness, and practical cooperation among ASEAN Member States and partners.

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News (English) - World Health Organization

WHO urges scale up of newborn screening to improve early detection and care of birth defects

The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on countries to expand newborn screening for birth defects, highlighting how early detection and treatment can save lives and reduce lifelong disability for millions of children. A new WHO report, Strengthening capacity for newborn screening, diagnosis and management of birth defects, identifies newborn screening as an important opportunity to accelerate progress in child survival. Many conditions can be successfully treated if identified early aft

2026-06-23 10:01 UTC
News (English) - World Health Organization

WHO issues comprehensive guidelines on filovirus disease, including Ebola and Marburg disease

As the Democratic Republic of the Congo is battling an Ebola disease outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first comprehensive guidelines for the clinical management of filovirus disease which include all types of Ebola and Marburg viruses. The new guidelines highlight the importance of early supportive care to improve patient survival and health outcomes, outlining 16 evidence-based recommendations.

2026-06-17 13:30 UTC
News (English) - World Health Organization

Open letter to leaders of G7, G20, BRICS and all nations on finalizing the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex

Dear Leaders of the G7, the G20, BRICS and of all nations, We write to you together, from Geneva and from Brasília, with one shared conviction: that the world must finish what it started, and that you can help it do so. We begin not with an institution or an annex, but with a memory the whole world shares. Not so long ago, our hospitals overflowed. Families said goodbye to the people they loved through glass, or by telephone, or not at all. Children lost grandparents. Doctors and nurses,

2026-06-15 09:05 UTC