WHO Regional Office for South East Asia

This document attempts to provide a simple, evidence-based guide for implementing drug-use-prevention interventions in schools. It is in two parts.

This three-day inter-ministerial meeting aimed to regulate the safe reopening of schools after COVID, to make every school a Health Promoting School (HPS), and to scale up implementation of comprehensive school health programmes that promote the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.

The Objectives of the rapid assessment were to: analyse the adolescent health situation in each country; map existing adolescent health and school health legislation, policies, programmes, capacity and resources (including budgets); assess adolescents’ access to health services and unmet needs; u

Countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR) have prepared national health programmes during the last decade and have been implementing the adolescent friendly health services with variable scale and pace.