Monthly operational update on health emergencies - July 2023

Overview

In this edition of the Monthly Operational Update on Health Emergencies, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include:

• Supporting Saudi Arabia’s health authorities to ensure a safe Hajj pilgrimage
• Strengthening the health system in the Central African Republic through the Health Resources and Services Availability Monitoring System (HeRAMS)
  
• Téchne, WHO/AFRO and Politecnico de Torino win the International Innovative Health Design Award
  
• First National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) training held for countries and territories in the western Balkans
  
• Mongolia reviews lessons learned from COVID-19 to be better prepared for the next pandemic
  
• Providing access to scarce medical countermeasures during the mpox multi-country outbreak
  
• WHO launches work to develop an ethical framework for social listening and infodemic management
  
• WHO holds a technical consultation on mainstreaming infodemic management into learning and teaching programmes for health workforce
  
• Combatting disease threats among people fleeing the Sudan conflict
  
• WHO and the Ministry of Health and Child Care undertake a groundbreaking joint field visit to Zimbabwe’s cholera-affected provinces
  
• WHO steps up its humanitarian response in southern Ukraine following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
  
• WHO publishes a new EWARS in a box mobile user guide to facilitate disease early warning, alert and response in emergencies
  
• WHO Logistics Hub’s Monthly Update (covering June 2023)
  
• Global reach of online cholera courses continues to grow since 2017