Health

Under the leadership of the World Health Organization, the Somali Health Cluster is made up of more than 150 international and national humanitarian health organizations that are working together to build partnerships and mutual understanding and to develop common approaches to humanitarian health action in Somalia. Serving as a mechanism for coordinated assessments, joint analyses and the development and implementation of the health crisis response strategy, the Health Cluster enables participating organizations and local authorities to work together, harmonize response efforts, integrate cross-cutting issues, and use available resources efficiently within the framework of agreed objectives, priorities and strategies.

• About Health
• Country Cooperation Strategy for WHO and Somalia 2021-2025
• Food Insecurity and Health Strategic Framework - FINAL V1 DRAFT_EDITED May 2022
• Food Security and Nutriton Analysis Unit - FSNAU
• Service Availability and readiness assessment (SARA)
• WHO Somalia Country Office

• Somalia : Health Cluster Bulletin - October/November 2025
• Somalia : Health Cluster Bulletin - September 2025

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• Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) Somalia, 2020
• Drought Situation Update Presentation
• AWD/Cholera Situation Update Week 3, 2023
• Health Cluster Bulletin December 2022
• Drought Situation Update Presentation 19th Jan 2023
• Overview of Health Cluster Response 2023

• Somali guidelines on integrated management of newborn and childhood illnesses - Chart booklet (2022 Edition)
• mhGAP Community Toolkit: Field Test Version, Feb 2024
• Clinical management of diphtheria: guideline, Feb 2024
• Community-Based Mental Health: A Training Guide for Community Providers, Jan 2024
• Integrating MHPSS and Peacebuilding: a Mapping and Recommendations for Practitioners - IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, Jan 2024
• Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE): Group psychological help for young adolescents affected by distress in communities exposed to adversity, Dec 2023
• Parents and caregivers are heroes: Protecting our children in a crisis, Feb 2023
• Diphtheria Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Surveillance Standards
• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria in the Somali Context, May 2023
• Psychological First Aid for Young Peers - A handbook, 2021
• Training in Psychological First Aid: For Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - Module 3 PFA for Children, 2019
• Hospital and Referral Health Center Standard Treatment Guidelines-FGS, 2015
• Health Center Standard Treatment Guidelines-FGS
• Primary Health Unit Standard Treatment Guidelines-FGS
• Cholera Standard Case Management Protocol
• First steps for Managing an Outbreak of Acute Diarrhoea
• Understanding children’s wellbeing, 2012
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• Field Test Version - Manual for Training of Facilitators and Focal Points, 2021
• Training Manual - A training for children and adolescents on how to support a friend in distress, 2021

• Global Health Cluster - Mpox Update (26 August 2024)
• Clinical management and infection prevention and control for monkeypox
• Strategic Framework for Enhancing Prevention and Control of mpox, 2024-2027
• Surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing for mpox (monkeypox): Interim guidance (20 March 2024)
• Mpox Outbreak Toolbox, Updated: January 2023

Diphtheria Outbreak Situational Report Week 36 (1st - 7th Sept 2025)

Current week (ending 7th September 2025)

• 160 cases reported in high volume facilities where cases are admitted
• 87(54%) were children under five years’ old
• 5 deaths reported from health facilities CFR% (3)
• Zero community deaths

Source : govt. Somalia.

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AWD/Cholera Weekly Epidemiological Report Epi Week 37 (8th - 14th Sept 2025)

New cases for epi-week 37

• 108 new cholera cases reported from CTCs
• No death (CFR 0.0%) in health facilities
• 50 (46%) children below 5 years
• 65 (60%) were female
• 5 (7%) cases RDT positive

Source : govt. Somalia.

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Somalia: e-IDSR Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin: Epi-Week 36 (1st – 7th Sept 2025)

• Epi-Week 36: 86% Health Facility Reporting Achieved (391/453)
• 4,496 Alerts Reported: Includes Measles, Diphtheria, SARI, ILI, Typhoid, Meningitis & Others
• Measles: 24 Tested, 20 positives; 82 Malaria Cases Confirmed via RDT.
• Dengue fever cases confirmed in Mogadishu in June and July 2025, with 15 cases confirmed out of 96 suspected; no chikungunya cases detected in Mogadishu.
• A joint field visit with WHO and MOH officials in Guracel District assessed Istarline Hospital's diphtheria outbreak response, revealing ongoing case admissions, increased vaccination demand, and gaps in case management.
• Currently, there are Five active outbreaks in the country. And they are AWD/Cholera, Diphtheria, measles, Chikungunya, and Dengue fever.

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• https://reliefweb.int/map/somalia/somalia-health-cluster-team-december-2023

• Drought response IMT epidemiological update
• Health Cluster GBV Activity Update
• PIMS - Last Mile Made Easy - Pharmaceutical Information Management System
• BBC Media Action: Presentation to the Health Cluster, Somalia
• Cholera situation update in Somalia as of March 2023
• Mortality patterns in Somalia: retrospective estimates and scenario-based forecasts
• Polio situation update for Health cluster meeting March 2023
• Somalia: Updates on UNFPA Mobile Maternity Clinics March 2023

Somalia National Health Cluster Meeting (Monday, 25th August 2025 - Online on Teams) [Meeting Minutes]

1. Welcome and introduction
2. Review of last meeting’ action points
3. Updates from the SOM Health Cluster Coordination team: - Progress on health cluster priorities - Key issues and concerns from different fora (OCHA, ICCM and partners) - Share initial thoughts on 2026 HPC - Health cluster response gap analysis
4. Epidemiological overview and EPI updates: WHO
5. Update by Technical WGs: - MHPSS TWG - SRH TWG
6. Health Cluster Information Management Update
7. Update from health partners response: SASDO
8. AoB

Somalia National Health Cluster Meeting (Monday, 28th July 2025 - Online on Teams) [Meeting Minutes]

1. Welcome and opening remarks
2. Updates from the SOM Health Cluster Coordination team: - Coordination update - Impact of underfunding and overview of the SHF SA 2025 - Health Cluster ‘s key priority areas going forward 2025
3. Epidemiological overview and EPI updates: WHO
4. Update by Technical WGs: o MHPSS TWG o SRH TWG
5. Health Cluster Information Management Update
6. AoB

Somalia National Health Cluster Meeting (Thursday, 15th May 2025 - Online on Teams) [Meeting Minutes]

• Funding and HNRP Update - Epidemiological situation update
• Update on Mental health and Psychosocial support activities
• Pneumococcal and Rotavirus vaccine presentation
• Partner updates.

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COVID-19 IEC Materials translated from English to Somali

• Somalia HRP 2023
• Global Health Cluster
• Public Health Information Management Standards