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SEAHEARTS Initiative

Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are a major public health challenge and accounts for a quarter of all deaths in the WHO South-East Asia Region. The Seventy-sixth Regional Committee endorsed the initiative "SEAHEARTS: Accelerating Prevention and Control of Cardiovascular Diseases in the South-East Asia Region” to address the challenge in a time bound manner. 

SEAHEARTS initiative aims to bring together tobacco control, salt reduction, and elimination of trans-fatty acids along with improved hypertension and diabetes coverage and control through primary health care. SEAHEARTS initiative has set four milestones with time-bound commitments to reduce CVD risk factors and strengthen and reorient health systems to add to the momentum for CVD control in the Region.

SEAHEARTS monitoring platform

This interactive platform provides periodic updates on the status of four milestones in the Region. The progress is tracked based on the indicators outlined in the SEAHEARTS Monitoring Framework.

Hypertension
100 Million
People with hypertension and diabetes are placed on protocol-based management by 2025
Salt Intake
One Billion
People are covered with at least one of the WHO SHAKE package measures for reducing salt intake by 2025
Status of milestones achievement
Tobacoo
One Billion
People are covered by at least three WHO MPOWER measures for tobacco control by 2025
Fatty Acids
Two Billion
People are protected from the harmful effects of trans-fatty acids through best practice or complementary policy measures of the WHO REPLACE package by 2025