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All →National health emergency alert and response framework
This multi-hazard Health Emergency Alert and Response Framework provides guidance for coordinating emergency response in countries, under the global Health...
Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline, August 2025
The WHO Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline contains recommendations for the use of therapeutics in the treatment of COVID-19. It is...
The COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance contains the most up-to-date WHO recommendations for the clinical management of people with COVID-19....
NAPHS for all: a country implementation guide for national action plan for health security (NAPHS)
A national action plan for health security (NAPHS) is a country-owned, multi-year, joint planning process that can improve the implementation of IHR core...
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All →This is the 63rd situation report for the multi-country outbreak of mpox, which provides details on the global epidemiological situation for mpox, including...
In January 2026 (epidemiological weeks 1 to 4), a total of 16 912 new cholera and acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) cases were reported from 19 countries, territories,...
WHO Rapid Risk Assessment - Mpox, Global v.6
This Rapid Risk Assessment (RRA) aims to assess the risk of mpox at the global level, considering the public health impact, the risk of geographical spread...
COVID-19 Global Risk Assessment- Version 9
WHO regularly conducts risk assessments for graded emergencies in accordance with the WHO Emergency Response Framework. Since January 2020, WHO conducted...
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