May 2013: Watch how Yemeni families are receiving treatment for their children's malnutrition.

SANA’A, Yemen, 21 May 2013 - Born just over a year apart, sisters Onood and Ohood Nassar Al Hajria may face very different futures. Ohood’s eyes shine and sparkle as she plays with her younger sibling. Slightly unsure, 3-year-old Onood looks up at her older sister for approval.

World Vision Niger reported zero child deaths in three of the last five months from its 20 area development programmes that serve 45,552 children. This new trend contrasts with the average 10 deaths per month in 2011 and five deaths per month in 2012.

Many children were regularly dying from preventable causes because they were not being taken to the hospital early enough or did not receive treatment for underlying conditions such as malnutrition, which made them vulnerable to malaria and typhoid.

Gondar May 20/2013 Construction of a hospital is well in progress in Mekaneberhan Town, capital of Janamora Woreda, North Gondar Zone of Amhara State with over 35 million Birr allocated by the government, the zonal administration said. Woreda Chief, YaleAlem Fantahun said the hospital being constructed on 4,200 square meter land will have outpatient, mothers' and children’s as well as surgical wards and laboratory, among others. He said upon going fully operational within 18 months the hospital will have capacity to give service to more than 190,000 residents in the woreda.

En el Municipio de Villanueva cuenta con una Población de 149,534 habitantes, 27,188 viviendas que en su mayoría presentan factores de riesgo; criaderos de mosquitos, inadecuadas prácticas en las medidas y control del medio ambiente como resultado altos índices larvarios.- Según datos de la Secretaria de Salud de Villanueva, el 2010 se detectaron 27 casos de dengue de los cuales 23 de dengue clásico y 4 de dengue hemorrágico.- Para el 2011 se detectaron 2 casos de dengue hemorrágico, en el 2012 se detectaron 149 casos de dengue de los cuales 24 dieron positivos y 143 casos por nexo epi

The measles campaign runs 22-26 May in Bangui

BANGUI/YAOUNDE, 21 May 2013 – UNICEF and its partners are mounting an emergency measles vaccination campaign in Bangui, the conflict-hit capital of the Central African Republic, after eight children tested positive for the disease in April.

Working with the Ministry of Health, World Health Organization and NGO partners Merlin, IMC, ACF, PU-AMI and COOPI, UNICEF aims to reach 125, 000 children during the 22-26 May campaign.

This month, Islamic Relief has kick-started the second phase of work to develop quality education for poor and orphaned children in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Since Islamic Relief began its work with Khoog Khoor school for orphans in January 2012, the school has established itself as one of the top schools in the city. Khoog Khoor currently serves over 350 students – 50 of whom come from remote, conflict-affected areas and so live at the school.

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The Nutrition situation in South Sudan has remained precarious over the years owing to chronic food insecurity. The populations displaced from South Kordofan and Blue Nile states from 2011 owing to conflict, were installed into camps in the Maban county and high levels of malnutrition among the children was described as a humanitarian crisis. A survey conducted by Médecins sans Frontières -Belgium (MSF-B) in Batil camps subsequently in August 2012, revealed Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate of 39.8%.

UNRWA health programme hard hit in Syria but the UN agency's work is having an impact

Today, during the World Health Organization’s sixty sixth’s Annual World Health Summit, UNRWA released its Health Department 2012 Annual Report. The publication reflects on the operational challenges, the Agency has faced with rolling out an ongoing health reform and managing regular services during times of conflict.

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