World Health Organization (WHO)

The designation highlights Abu Dhabi’s expanding role in global health security, particularly in strengthening systems that detect, track, and respond to infectious disease threats.

The donation includes 108 electric obstetric theatre beds, along with specialised equipment for women’s cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.

The plan targets key pillars of outbreak control, including emergency coordination, disease surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, infection prevention and control, and clinical case management.

The latest recommendations come as health authorities continue to battle a widening outbreak in eastern DRC, with additional confirmed cases reported in Uganda.

The appeal followed discussions held during the 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79), where climate-related health risks featured prominently across several agenda items.

The leaders also pledged to protect essential services such as education, routine healthcare, cholera control and measles response efforts as countries confront the growing public health threat.

Through the new framework, WHO and AMA will coordinate efforts to streamline approval processes, enhance post-market surveillance, and build regulatory workforce capacity.

WHO validated the elimination in June 2025, and Kenya made a national announcement in August 2025 before formally receiving the certification in Geneva.

Since the partnership began, Gilead has supplied more than 1.1 million vials of AmBisome and contributed over US$18 million in funding.