Impact in 2025
WHO evacuated 19 patients and 93 companions from Gaza to Italy for specialized medical care.
In 2025, WHO and partners responded to 50 health emergencies in 82 countries and territories, reaching over 30 million people with life-saving health interventions
Dr Jamshid Tanoli, World Health Organization Emergency team lead in Afghanistan, administers polio drops to a girl at the zero-point camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Measles campaign in Afghanistan
In 2025, a 2-phase nationwide measles campaign led by WHO, UNICEF and Gavi reached 16.7 million children across all provinces of Afghanistan. The campaign achieved 91.7% coverage, dramatically boosting immunity in a country where only 51% of children had previously received their first measles dose.
Arrival of medical supplies in Bulape by helicopter, delivered by WHO with support from FCDO, as part of the Ebola response.
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Following an Ebola outbreak in Bulape Health District (Kasai Province), WHO worked with national authorities and partners to rapidly contain the spread. Multidisciplinary teams supported all response pillars, including infection prevention and control, contact tracing, vaccination and continuity of essential health services.
F.34, GBV survivor in the FLA IDP site of Port-au-Prince.
Addressing the surge in sexual violence in Haiti
Amid rising sexual violence linked to displacement and gang violence, PAHO ensured survivors received life-saving care and psychosocial support, deploying 31 trained psychologists and social workers and equipping eight health facilities with post–rape care kits and medical supplies.
HO staff providing dengue prevention health messages at the WFP cash for work initiative food distribution site near Mandalay, June 2025.
Response to Myanmar earthquake
After 2 powerful earthquakes struck central Myanmar’s Sagaing Region in March 2025, WHO immediately activated its incident management system, released US$ 5 million from its Contingency Fund and dispatched nearly 3 tonnes of trauma kits and medical supplies within 24 hours.
WHO supports the medical evacuation of patients from Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
WHO supports rehabilitation care for people injured in the Gaza Strip
A WHO report highlights the scale of the injuries sustained over two years of conflict, calling for the urgent protection of health facilities and access to supplies for vital rehabilitation and mental health care.
Health workers at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Essential aid for malnourished children in Somalia
With support from ECHO, WHO supplied paediatric severe acute malnutrition kits and essential medicines to health centres in Somalia, ensuring rapid treatment for the most complicated cases. This intervention is giving thousands of children a real chance to survive and recover amid drought, disease and poverty.
A child receives oral cholera vaccine (OCV) dose by health worker during vaccination campaign.
WHO steps up vaccination, response measures to curb cholera in South Sudan
WHO and partners helped South Sudan to secure 4.1 million doses of oral cholera vaccine to protect people in 15 high-risk counties, scaling up mass vaccination and supporting surveillance, case management and WASH interventions to curb outbreaks.
A WHO worker assesses the cholera response at Gulsa Village in Sudan.
Cholera vaccination campaign launched in Darfur
Facing the world’s largest displacement crisis, severe supply shortages and major access constraints, in September Sudan’s Ministry of Health, WHO and UNICEF delivered a cholera vaccination campaign in Darfur. Over 1.86 million doses were delivered while also strengthening local capacity with training, logistics support and field supervision to curb further spread of the outbreak.
Six-year-old Fares receives a routine medical check at Al-Bir NGO’s clinic in Hama, a WHO-supported implementing partner.
The Ma'arrat An Nu'man Primary Health Centre in Idlib reopened in May in the Syrian Arab Republic
The Ma'arrat An Nu'man Primary Health Centre in Idlib reopened in May as a lifeline for returning families. In its first week, it provided 1800 consultations, of which over 600 were for emergency cases; it now treats more than 1200 children monthly and offers obstetric care, mental health support and disease surveillance.
A hospital in Kyiv destroyed after an attack.
Community views inform health system recovery in war-affected areas of Ukraine
After more than 3 years of full-scale war, WHO gathered community perspectives on Ukraine's health system needs and experiences to inform recovery and reconstruction efforts. WHO has since deployed mobile clinics and emergency medical teams while developing reconstruction plans focused on recruiting health-care workers, protecting facilities and strengthening services.
An infant inside an incubator.
Fighting malnutrition in Yemen
In Yemen, 2.3 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. WHO, with support from the German Foreign Office, is providing care to 31 000 malnourished children at 96 stabilization centres and training 1546 health workers to expand treatment access.