What is it? Health is a core sector of humanitarian assistance and a reliable measurement of its impact. The European Commission aims to provide high-quality humanitarian health assistance in fragile...
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What is it? Health is a core sector of humanitarian assistance and a reliable measurement of its impact. The European Commission aims to provide high-quality humanitarian health assistance in fragile...
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Current major event Seasonal influenza situation in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region The Eastern Mediterranean Region is well into the influenza season (2022–2023), with surveillance data showing...
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Current major event Cholera: a global grade 3 emergency On 26 January 2023, the cholera outbreaks (event) was graded as a multi-region Grade 3 Public Health Emergency after considering the current...
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Abstract This combined, independent evaluation focused on DG ECHO’s humanitarian response to epidemics and its strategic partnership with WHO between 2017-2021. The evaluation found that DG ECHO...
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In 2022, 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection. This number is a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago, which was already the highest figure in...
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Current major event Strategic framework for ending cholera in the Region The strategic framework for ending cholera as a public health threat in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region has been...
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Current major event An overview of the Cholera outbreak response in Yemen, 2020 In 2020, Ministry of Public Health and Population (MOPHP) reported cumulatively a total of 233,720 cases and 85 deaths...
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Start members and their partners should consider acting on developing risks through the Start Fund Crisis Anticipation. Click HERE for more information on the Start Fund Crisis Anticipation. Click...
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Watchlist 2020 highlights the countries where the IRC assesses there to be the greatest risk of a major deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the coming year. The countries on Watchlist 2020...
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New and improved ways to provide aid enabled us to help millions of people in need January: Underlining the forgotten Many humanitarian crises don’t make the news headlines. The displaced Rohingyas...
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Dear Friends, On my very first assignment with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), I found myself in a hospital in Aweil, in what is today the independent nation of South Sudan. I...
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Excerpts Syria Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, said that, the previous day, a note to correspondents had been circulated in order to provide information on...
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Africa Burkina Faso 26 July 2019: In Konga, Gomboro district, Sourou province, suspected Katiba Macina militants reportedly kidnapped the manager of a pharmacy at an unnamed medical centre. Source:...
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Washington, May 15, 2019 – There were at least 973 attacks on health workers, health facilities, health transports and patients in 23 countries in conflict in 2018, the Safeguarding Health in...
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Natural and man-made crises continue to dominate news headlines and they are becoming more complex and long-lasting. UNDP has started a new generation of large-scale stabilization programmes, aiming...
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Les enfants pris dans des conflits prolongés sont trois fois plus susceptibles de mourir d’une maladie transmise par l’eau que de la violence NEW YORK, le 22 mars 2019 – Les enfants de moins de 15...
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Children living in protracted conflicts are three times more likely to die from water-related diseases than from violence – UNICEF NEW YORK, 22 March 2019 – Children under the age of 15 living in...
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Opening Remarks Mourad Wahba UN Assistant Secretary General UNDP Regional Director for Arab States General Assembly of the Arab Water Council Opening Plenary - 14:00-15:00 March 16, 2019...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The IRC’s Watchlist 2019 highlights the countries we believe are at greatest risk of experiencing the worst humanitarian crises over the coming year. • This year the Watchlist has...
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Current major event Transition from EWARN to routine surveillance A three days workshop was conducted in Damascus, Syria from 8-10 August 2018 to disseminate findings of Early Warning Alert and...