WHO’s Global Health Emergency Appeal for 2022 helps ensure that one billion people will be better protected from health emergencies. This new annual appeal covers WHO’s requirements to meet urgent emergency and humanitarian health needs for every region, including COVID-19 response.
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WHO NEEDS US$ 2.7 BILLION IN 2022 TO HELP PROTECT PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD FROM URGENT EMERGENCY AND HUMANITARIAN HEALTH NEEDS, INCLUDING THE COVID-19 RESPONSE.
WHO’s Global Health Emergency Appeal for 2022 helps ensure that one billion people will be better protected from health emergencies. This new annual appeal covers WHO’s requirements to meet urgent emergency and humanitarian health needs for every region, including COVID-19 response.
People targeted by health cluster assistance: 160 million across 56 countries
Partners: 900 national and international partners
Ever present, ever ready
• When a health crisis strikes WHO is already on the ground as a continuous presence, ready to scale up operations and stay the course in 152 countries. Every day WHO works in countries affected by conflict and other fragile settings, helping ensure that one outbreak does not become a cascade of progressively disastrous health impacts within the community and across nations. In 2021, WHO responded to 76 health emergencies, including multiple major protracted crises, as in Yemen, and large disease outbreaks such as Ebola.
• WHO supports fast and effective response to health emergencies through strong partnerships. WHO leads the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Global Health Cluster and the global COVID-19 response including Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), which continues to exacerbate health emergencies and strain resources.
• New diseases and their threats are continuously monitored, verified, and analyzed by WHO. This enables a rapid response to contain health emergencies, and the ability to accelerate research and development of safe and effective counter measures.
• WHO builds the resilience and readiness of communities and health systems against all hazards that can contribute to health emergencies. This includes actions which help to mitigate the health risks from all hazards associated with disasters, climate change, infodemics, and fragile and conflict settings.
Source: World Health Organization