Overview
This Situation Report provides a consolidated overview of WHO’s response to the Rohingya emergency crisis in Cox’s Bazar during December 2025. It highlights key developments in health sector coordination, disease surveillance, immunization, and emergency preparedness. The report emphasizes ongoing efforts to improve service quality, ensure continuity of care, and strengthen outbreak and emergency response, while summarizing operational achievements and priority actions to address evolving health needs among refugee and host communities.
Coordination and Leadership
Following guidance from the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, the Health and Nutrition sectors continued joint efforts to advance the planned integration of services at both primary health care and community levels. This includes integration of the Outpatient Therapeutic Programme, Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme, and Infant and Young Child Feeding at primary health care level, with full integration at the community level. The Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme will remain separate, with possible co-location subject to feasibility. Implementation is scheduled to begin on 1 January 2026, with follow-up actions planned to address remaining gaps.
In December 2025, WHO-led Health Sector coordination conducted monthly meetings at Cox’s Bazar (1) and camp levels (33). Partners were updated on the overall situation, funding developments, key priorities of Draft Joint Response Plan (JRP) 2026, disease surveillance (Dengue, Cholera, Acute Flaccid Paralysis, and vaccine-preventable diseases), routine immunization, sexual and reproductive health, community health, emergency preparedness, and mental health activities. These meetings, aligned with Health Sector Strategic Objectives 1–3, also addressed field coordination gaps, reinforcing WHO’s leadership in guiding the health response and ensuring timely information sharing across the camps.
The Health Sector Information Management Team, in collaboration with WHO, maintained updated data products, including interactive dashboards (4W, HeRAMS) and the training calendar, enabling evidence-based decision-making. These resources remain accessible through the Health Sector website:
https://rohingyaresponse.org/sectors/coxs-bazar/health/
The Sub-Office participated in the first formal observation of the 16 Days of Activism campaign in the camps, advocating against digital violence, displaying key messages, and contributing to expert panel discussions on health and legal dimensions, survivor support, and service provider capacity building.
