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Peru – Disease outbreaks (ECHO Daily Flash, 18/04/2013)

The Ministry of Health has declared a Red alert in the city of Juanjuí (Mariscal Cáceres province), San Martín Department due to a leptospirosis outbreak where two persons have died. At least 66 cases have been confirmed and 380 persons present the disease symptoms.

The Regional Health Office has issued a Yellow alert in the Department of Piura due to the considerable increase of registered dengue cases. At least 622 cases have been notified, of which 39 have been confirmed, and one person has died. This situation is of great concern in the health sector.

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Reporte de situación nº 261 - Inundación afecta provincia de Moho departamento de Puno

I. HECHOS:

El 10 de marzo de 2013, a las 05:00 horas aproximadamente a consecuencia de las precipitaciones pluviales y la acumulación de desperdicios se desbordó 02 pequeños riachuelos inundando viviendas en las localidades Barrio Capajocha y Gallo de Oro del distrito de Moho.

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Peru + 5 others
REDLAC Weekly Note on Emergencies Latin America & The Caribbean - Year 6 - Volume 297

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • PERU: The Huallaga River overflowed affecting 18,000 people affected and damaging 4,000 houses.

  • BOLIVIA: Close to 460 people were affected by the overflowing of the Maniqui River.

  • PARAGUAY: More than 26,500 cases of dengue confirmed.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Hundreds of quakes shake villages around smoking Peruvian volcano

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:59 GMT

LIMA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Hundreds of small earthquakes have shaken the earth around the Sabancaya volcano in southern Peru over just a few days and the rumbling, along with plumes of smoke spewing up to 320 feet (100 meters) high, have put officials on alert to evacuate the area.

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Peru: Floods and Landslides (as of 22 Feb 2013) (EN/SP) - Location Map

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22 Feb 2013 - Heavy rain since October 2012 has affected 71,000 people. Eight people have died and 1,410 are homeless. Arequipa and Cusco, the most affected departments, are under a declaration of emergency. the rainfall triggered a landslide that hit homes in the Acos Vinchos district of Ayacucho department.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Peru: Dengue - DREF operation n° MDRPE006, Update No. 1

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IFRC

Summary: On 4 December 2012, 134,809 Swiss francs were allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Peruvian Red Cross (PRC) in delivering immediate assistance for up to 20,000 people. Unearmarked funds to repay DREF are encouraged.

By 26 November 2012 (epidemiological week 45), Peruvian health authorities reported 20,106 cases of dengue in the country, most of these in the eastern region of Peru, with Ucayali being the most affected department, facing 3,010 cases and eleven deaths reported in October and November.

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Promoting handwashing behavior in Peru - the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions

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World Bank

Policy Research Working Paper 6257

Impact Evaluation Series No. 74

Abstract

This paper analyzes a randomized experiment that uses novel strategies to promote handwashing with soap at critical times in Peru. It evaluates a large-scale intervention that includes a mass media provincial campaign and a district-level community component.

The analysis finds that the mass media intervention alone had no significant effect on exposure to the handwashing promotion campaign messages, and therefore no effect on handwashing knowledge or handwashing behavior.

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Peru: Dengue - DREF operation n° MDRPE006

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IFRC

134,809 Swiss francs have been allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Peruvian Red Cross (PRC) in delivering immediate assistance for up to 20,000 people. Unearmarked funds to repay DREF are encouraged.

Summary: By 26 November 2012, Peruvian health authorities reported 20,106 cases of dengue in the country as of epidemiologic week 45, most of these having occurred in the eastern region of Peru, with Ucayali being the most affected department with 3,010 cases and eleven deaths reported in October and November.

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Activists fight for the rights of HIV-positive women living in Peru

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UN Women

“I believe that, generally speaking, we tend to associate violence with manifestations of physical and sexual violence, and that we as women tend to overlook many additional forms of violence. In my own case, the fact that my husband’s [HIV-positive] diagnosis was deliberately concealed from me constituted an act of violence,” affirms Guiselly Flores, director of the Peruvian Network of Women Living with HIV (RPM+).

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Peruvian Amazon's floating hospital – in pictures

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Guardian

The Chosen Vessel, run by NGO Project Amazonas, provides medical services to the remote villages of the Peruvian Amazon. There is an on-board doctor and dentist, and free reading glasses are given to those who need them. The boat hospital has treated 200,000 people in the 16 years it has been sailing on the river

Read the full article on The Guardian

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Eleven killed, 10 missing in Peru landslide

10/18/2012 02:52 GMT

LIMA, Oct 17, 2012 (AFP) - At least 11 Peruvians were killed and 10 more are missing after a mudslide Wednesday slammed into a small village in a mountainous jungle region, officials said.

Those killed in the landslide include five children, Ronald Garcia, the provincial mayor, told RPP national radio network.

The avalanche of mud and rocks swept away 24 homes when it crashed into the village of El Porvenir, in the northern department of San Martin, at dawn.

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The ICRC regional delegation in Lima

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ICRC

The regional delegation in Lima coordinates the ICRC's activities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. It closely monitors the humanitarian consequences of past and present conflicts in the region, visits detainees and promotes efforts to establish the fate of missing persons. It helps security forces adapt their procedures to international legal norms and offers capacity-building for the region's National Red Cross Societies.

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SUNAT - Aduanas dona al INDECI vehículo para movilizar ayuda humanitaria

NOTA DE PRENSA N°436 2012-INDECI-UII

La Dirección Regional del INDECI Sur Oriente con sede en la ciudad del Cusco, recibió de la SUNAT - ADUANAS, la donación de un vehículo que permitirá al INDECI movilizar bienes de ayuda humanitaria hacia las zonas afectadas por desastres de origen natural o inducidos por la actividad humana.

El vehículo es un camión marca Volvo de 7 toneladas que ha sido puesto a disposición del INDECI, para de esta manera optimizar las tareas de atención de emergencia en la región Cusco.

Cusco, 3 de octubre de 2012

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Peru (MAAPE002) Mid-Year Report 2012

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IFRC

Overview

During the first half of 2012, the regional representation for the Andean countries (regional representation) has worked closely with the Peruvian Red Cross (PRC) to strengthen its capacities in disaster management, health and care and organizational development. In line with Strategy 2020, the Peruvian Red Cross continues to strengthen its skills to better fulfil its mandate to respond to the humanitarian needs of the most vulnerable people in Peruvian society.

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Peru Floods DREF operation n° MDRPE005 Update n°2

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IFRC

DREF operation n° MDRPE005 GLIDE n° FL-2011-000198-PER Update n°2 – 14 September 2012

Period covered by this update: 10 July to 16 August, 2012.

Summary: 255,940 Swiss francs have been allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Peruvian Red Cross (PRC) in delivering immediate assistance to 800 families (some 4,000 beneficiaries).

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Peru quake victims suffer five years on

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Al Jazeera

Thousands of families still live in makeshift homes after 2007 earthquake devastated southern city of Pisco.

Watch the video on Al Jazeera.

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Three months on

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ShelterBox

In March ShelterBox responded to two separate disasters in Peru. Heavy rains triggered landslides that caused widespread damage in the remote mountainous region of Apurimac. Whilst in the Loreto region, in northern Peru, the unusually heavy rains led to extensive flooding. In July ShelterBox sent a monitoring and evaluation team back to these regions to assess the situation three months on.

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Peru: Cold Wave (as of 1 Aug 2012) - Location Map (EN/SP)

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1 Aug 2012 - More than 30,113 people have been affected by extreme cold weather, where temperatures reached below 0ºC. In Arequipa, acute respiratory infections affected nearly 15,000 people and pneumonia disease killed 152 people.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.