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Regional Strategic Operational Plan

The plan focuses on six regional priorities. Five are taken from GPW 14: three technical pillars – Promote, Provide and Protect – plus two enabling pillars, Power and Perform. Polio has been added as a sixth priority, as the Eastern Mediterranean is the only region where it remains endemic.

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About the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for public health within the United Nations system. The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is one of WHO’s 6 regional offices around the world. It serves the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, which comprises 21 Member States and occupied Palestinian territory (including East Jerusalem), with a population of nearly 745 million people.

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