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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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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...
This Rapid Risk Assessment (RRA) aims to assess the risk of MERS-CoV in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, considering the public health impact, the...
From 1 January to 28 December 2025, a cumulative total of 614 828 cholera cases and 7598 deaths were reported from 33 countries across five WHO regions,...
This is the 62nd situation report for the multi-country outbreak of mpox, which provides details on the global epidemiological situation for mpox, including...
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