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Emergency news

22 November 2023

WHO statement on reported clusters of respiratory illness in children in northern China

21 November 2023

WHO staff member killed in Gaza

19 November 2023

WHO-led joint UN and Red Crescent mission evacuates 31 infants from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

18 November 2023

WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

Our emergency work in focus

17 February 2022

PAHO/WHO and UK-FCDO Handover four Smart Health Care facilities in Belize to the MoHW

26 January 2022

PAHO & UKaid Handover Nine Smart Health Facilities to Jamaica

30 July 2020

Attacks on health care in the context of COVID-19

WHO needs US$2.54 billion to provide life-saving assistance to millions of people around the world facing health emergencies. WHO’s Health Emergency Appeal...

Publications

Therapeutics and COVID-19: Living guideline, 10 November 2023

The WHO Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline contains the most up-to-date recommendations for the use of therapeutics in the treatment...

WHO roadmap on uses of COVID-19 vaccines in the context of Omicron and high population immunity: an approach to optimize the global impact of COVID-19...

Diagnostic testing for the monkeypox virus (‎MPXV)‎: interim guidance, 9 November 2023

The overall goal of testing for monkeypox virus in the context of the 2022-2023 multi-country outbreak of mpox is to enable timely and accurate...

Clinical characterization of mpox including monitoring the use of therapeutic interventions: statistical analysis plan, 13 October 2023

The statistical analysis plan for mpox describes how data will be used to understand presenting conditions, morbidity and mortality, and subgroup analysis...

Documents

In this edition of WHO's Operational Update on Health Emergencies, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include:Ensuring access...

Countries in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA) continue to face extreme weather events including drought and flooding; the impacts of these events are...

Since the last situation report on the multi-country outbreak of cholera was published on 5 October 2023 (covering data reported until 15 September),...

Globally, the number of new cases decreased by 42% during the 28-day period of 25 September to 22 October 2023 as compared to the previous 28-day period,...