WHO's Health Emergency Appeal 2025

21 January, 2025

16 January 2025

https://www.who.int/emergencies/funding/health-emergency-appeals/2025

Overview

In 2025, WHO needs US$ 1.5 billion to provide life-saving health care to millions of people in emergencies. More than 300 million people across the globe are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Health is at the heart of every emergency response. From delivering life-saving care and essential medicines to conducting disease surveillance and supporting local health systems, WHO is leading efforts to safeguard the lives of the most vulnerable in the most challenging circumstances. WHO's health emergency appeal identifies the critical priorities and resources required to address 42 ongoing health emergencies, including 17 Grade 3 crises – the most severe. These emergencies demand a coordinated, well-resourced global response to save lives, protect health, and restore hope to communities on the brink.

COMMENT (NPW): Preventing and addressing morbidity, mortality and all health challenges is fundamentally dependent on ensuring that every person, every health worker, every policymaker has access to actionable, reliable healthcare information when and where they need it. There is as yet no high level political commitment to achieve universal access to reliable healthcare information, nor is there a global strategy for its realisation. This is what HIFA respondents worldwide are calling for. www.hifa.org/infographic

HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org