Monthly operational update on health emergencies - June 2023

Overview

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

• In Mozambique, WHO helps families in areas affected by cholera outbreak to prevent the disease
  

• WHO support to Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak response in the United Republic of Tanzania
  

• Insecurity in Sudan and the related issues for the health care system
  

• Enhancing prevention and control at points of entry under the International Health Regulations (2005): WHO launches a virtual reality training for Ship Inspections and the Issuance Ship Sanitation Certificates (SSCs)
  

• Improving border health capacities and fostering cross border collaboration in Central Asia and Southern Caucasus
  

• WHO brings RCCE partners together to respond to multi-hazard emergencies in South-East Asia
  

• WHO, in collaboration with key partners holds the Third Regional Training of Trainers on Public Health Emergency Operations Centre in Victoria, Seychelles
  

• Sri Lanka develops its first risk profile through multisectoral collaboration to inform preparedness actions
  

• PAHO brings together experts to review strategies to tackle outbreaks in the Americas
  

• Forward planning: GOARN partners meet in Jordan to discuss strategic plan implementation
  

• WHO and its partners enhance Rapid Response Mobile Laboratory Network's capacities through simulation exercises
  

• WHO Logistics Hub's Monthly Update (covering May 2023)
  

• Nearly one in ten learners enrolled in OpenWHO's food insecurity online course are from the Greater Horn of Africa