In 2015, the World Health Organization established the Attacks on Health Care (AHC) initiative. This initiative is a priority of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme. The vision of the initiative is that essential lifesaving health services must be provided to emergency-affected populations unhindered by any form of violence or obstruction. The Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) is one of the outputs of this initiative. The purpose of the WHO Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) is to systematically collect and make available data on attacks on health care, and their immediate impact on health care in countries facing emergencies. Definition of attack WHO defines an attack as any act of verbal or physical violence, threat of violence or other psychological violence, or obstruction that interferes with the availability, access and delivery of curative and/or preventive health services. Criteria for determining the level of certainty of an attack on health care Rumour Social media post (Twitter or Facebook) OR Hearsay OR Form submission from anonymous source Possible Media report from local or international news source OR Communication from an organization not defined in the partner group that an attack has been made against them Probable One eyewitness accounts of the attack as told to one or more SSA partner OR Two secondary accounts (not eyewitnesses) of the attack as told to one or more SSA partner(s) Confirmed Communication from an SSA partner that an attack has been made against them OR One eyewitness account by someone from the SSA partner group OR Two eyewitness accounts of the attack as told to one or more SSA partner(s) OR Types and sources of information that would be graded as ‘Probable’ PLUS-A photo, video or satellite image of the attack or its aftermath, or an international media or police report that provides clear evidence of the attack

Health Resource and Health Service Availability Monitoring Systems (HeRAMS) is a collaborative effort between WHO, MISAU, and SPS to collect information on the status of health facilities in terms of functionality and availability of health services, particularly in areas experiencing humanitarian crises or adverse climatic hazards that have disrupted health services. As a result, having a clear picture of where and why health services are unavailable or inaccessible provides health partners with crucial information for responding effectively in the provision of critical health care services to the impacted population.

Somalia location of health facilities by region and district.

On 1 August 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in North Kivu Province. The Ministry of Health, WHO and partners are responding to this event, and working to establish the full extent of this outbreak. Numbers may fluctuate on a daily basis due to many factors, including continuing monitoring, investigation and reclassification of cases. Alert and suspected cases (not reported here), are systematically investigated to confirm or exclude Ebola virus disease before inclusion in the case counts or discarded as non-cases. WHO GIS team is supporting the National Health Information System Division (DSNIS) to update the health related geographic data (health zones, areas and health facility structures) and other spatial information such as road, building, school together with the OpenStreetMap community and various partners. To carry out this work, the methodology was decided with local cartographers and together we were able to improve the data locally.

List of health facilities in Yemen by health facility type - Updated September 2020