African Region: quarterly emergency preparedness and response, quarter 2, 2024
In the second quarter of 2024, the Regional Office’s Emergency Response Programme (EMR) led coordinated health interventions across multiple acute and protracted emergencies, including two newly graded crises and several ungraded events. As of the end of June, WHO was actively monitoring 163 events (134 outbreaks and 29 humanitarian events) in the African Region. Of these, 19 were graded public health emergencies.