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The health emergencies list below details the disease outbreaks, environmental disasters and other humanitarian crises in which WHO has played or is still playing an essential role in protecting health.
- Iraq Crisis
The humanitarian crisis in Iraq remains one of the largest...
- Nigeria Crisis
However, with COVID-19 response efforts underway, the...
- Afghanistan Crisis
WHO is responding to the health crisis in Afghanistan. Funds...
- Zika Virus Disease
In 2016, WHO declared that the recent association of Zika...
- Somalia Crisis
These conditions have weakened, overburdened and, in some...
- Crisis in Northern Ethiopia
As Global Health Cluster lead, WHO is coordinating with 23...
- Iraq Crisis
GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters.
19 wrz 2024 · WHO - Emergency situation reports. WHO demands urgent integration of health in climate negotiations ahead of COP29. Countries pledge to act on childhood violence affecting some 1 billion children. Second round of polio campaign in Gaza completed amid ongoing conflict and attacks: UNICEF and WHO.
Health emergencies. Keeping the world safe and protecting the vulnerable are top priorities for WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme. We work with countries and partners around the world, around the clock, to prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks and other health emergencies.
Welcome to Disaster Tracker, a live, lightweight resource for scientifically verified global events. This Application will be updated as events happen, sometimes hours after they occur.
1 wrz 2021 · Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events, have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries, the World...
Browse our list of natural disasters with humanitarian impact from 1981 until today.