The heads of emergency services for the World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will today in Geneva outline to donor

Thatta, Sindh Province

As of Oct. 1st, relief personnel from AMDA Headquarters (Japan), AMDA Indonesia and AMDA Bangladesh are actively engaged in mobile clinic in Thatta, Sindh Province in the south.

From Sept. 21st to 27th, the team saw 582 patients in total. The common maladies were chronic diseases (headache, joint pain and muscle ache), upper respiratory infections, upper gastrointestinal diseases and skin diseases. The over quality of water is worsened by the

The one-year programme, part of a broader UN emergency response plan, aims at restoring livelihoods through job creation, repairing basic community infrastructure, and strengthening local government offices to get public services running again.

"There is not a moment to lose.

1 October 2010

President of the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Tadateru Konoé, told a press conference today that the IFRC wants to extend its relief programming to include a second round of relief aid distribution.

Some 150,000 families are currently benefiting from Red Cross and Red Crescent relief aid, consisting of both food and non-food items. Close to one million men, women and children are also receiving

Emergency food distribution. Photo: David O' Hare"We have been working with flood survivors for ten weeks now - supplying them with food, water, blankets, hygiene kits, plastic sheeting and other essential items - and the immediate aftermath of the floods has

According to the U.N., the majority of populations displaced by floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPk) and Punjab provinces have already returned to areas of origin. Relief agencies are developing an interagency returns framework to ensure that the assistance to returning populations effectively promotes recovery and reintegration.

According to local authorities in KPk, sporadic snowfall has already begun in parts of Swat District. As a result, the KPk Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has requested that

At a round table meeting convened by Church World Service Pakistan / Afghanistan, senior representatives of invited organizations committed to an increase in collaboration towards

After Pakistan has experienced one of the most devastating floods in its history, it is now to be feared that the nutrition situation will aggravate in the South Asian country. In the framework of providing needy families with essential relief goods, humedica is now planning to expand our programmes regarding the nutrition situation of children in Pakistan.

According to public figures, more than 1,700 people died due to the floods and 2,000 were injured. Of the about 21 millions of flood victims almost 8.6 million are children. Currently,

To help inform the new Independent Monitoring Board

Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first quarterly 'data compilation' against the global milestones of the new Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Strategic Plan 2010-2012. The status update provides basic epidemiological information on milestones and major indicators.

This update is part of a series of reports which will inform the deliberations of a new Independent Monitoring Board