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Statement: Yellow fever campaign launches in Khartoum State as final phase of country-wide immunization drive

7 November 2019, Khartoum, Sudan – “The final phase of the yellow fever vaccination campaign targeting more than 30 million people across Sudan was launched this week in Khartoum State.

WHO/Sudan

WHO scales up cholera vigilance in Khartoum, Sudan

5 November 2019, Khartoum, Sudan -- To prevent a potential spread of the current cholera outbreak to Khartoum State – including to the country’s capital Khartoum City – and at the request of the Federal Minister of Health Dr Akram Eltoum, WHO is working closely with health partners, nongovernmental organizations, and at-risk communities to ensure that suspected cases are quickly identified and responded to, and that people can effectively protect themselves from infection.

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EWARS- improving early detection and prompt response to acute public health events

1 November 2019 Maiduguri - Not so long ago, collecting and evaluating large amounts of data in the field on disease trends and patterns – an activity known as surveillance – was a cumbersome process. Surveillance officers noted information by hand on paper and sent hard copies of weekly reports to the local government area (LGA) secretariat via disease surveillance and notification officers (DSNOs).

The day the lab techs helped change the fate of a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Surveillance and rapid detection of an Ebola case are proving to be vital tools in the race to end this outbreak, and case numbers have been dwindling for the past several months. To provide quicker lab analysis needed for quick detection, the Government, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and partners, expanded on an approach started in the previous outbreak but with only a single unit.


Outbreaks and crises

Map showing emergencies around the world that has a WHO grading, 2016.
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WHO has an essential role to play in supporting Member States to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies with public health consequences.

What we do

From prevention through preparedness to early warning, response, and early recovery, the WHO Health Emergencies programme is operational.

Funding

Health crisis in Central African Republic.
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WHO thanks all of the contributors that provide funding or in-kind contribution for WHO’s work for emergencies.

Partners

WHO coordinates the international health response to emergencies and humanitarian crises, but we cannot do this work without our partners who help us deliver health services in even the most difficult situations.

Behind the headlines

At any one time, dozens of infectious disease outbreaks are happening around the world. In this special feature, we visit a series of recent health emergencies, telling the stories behind the headlines and exploring the many different dimensions of an outbreak response.

R&D; Blueprint

Illustration of lab equipment.
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The R&D; Blueprint is a global strategy and preparedness plan to ensure that targeted R&D; can strengthen the emergency response by bringing medical technologies to patients during epidemics.

Disease Outbreak News (DONs)

Oversight

WHO training on personal protective equipment during the Ebola outbreak in Guinea
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The Director-General has established an Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (IOAC), to provide oversight and monitoring of the development and performance of the Programme and to guide the Programme’s activities.

News

WHO

Each issue of the Health Emergency Highlights contains information on the current humanitarian context, the health priorities and response operations