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Key figures on WHO’s work in emergencies (as of 15 October 2024)
WHO is currently responding to 40 graded emergencies across the world, including:
11 Grade - 3 emergencies
7 protracted Grade - 3 emergencies
10 Grade - 2 emergencies
9 protracted Grade - 2 emergencies
3 Grade - 1 emergencies
Graded emergency: An acute public health event or emergency that requires WHO’s moderate response (Grade-2) or maximal response (Grade-3). If a graded emergency persists for more than six months, it may transition to a protracted emergency. WHO continuously updates the graded emergencies figures based on inputs from the Organization’s three-levels.
On 14 August 2024 the WHO Director-General declared the escalating mpox outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). On 29 September 2024, the ongoing Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda was graded as a WHO Grade-3 emergency. On 3 October 2024, the hostilities in Lebanon were graded as a WHO Grade-3 emergency.
So far in 2024, nearly US$ 48 million has been released by WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) to provide humanitarian health assistance for 26 emergencies. The largest allocations have been for the Sudan conflict and refugee crisis, the Ethiopia humanitarian response, the global dengue outbreak, the crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon.
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) has supported 45 deployments in 2024. The highest number of GOARN deployments were in response to the escalation of violence in Israel and occupied Palestinian territories (13), the Greater Horn of Africa drought and food Insecurity (six), and the Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda (five).
OpenWHO.org totaled 9 million enrolments across 295 online public health courses, with learning available in 75 national and local languages. To date, there have been 760 000 enrolments in 2024.
In 2024, Standby Partners have supported WHO’s response to 12 graded emergencies through the deployment of 43 new deployments of surge personnel to 19 WHO offices.