Madagascar + 1 more
Of the 1.14 million, 14,000 people are critically food insecure. The number of children treated for severe acute malnutrition in the Grand Sud has quadrupled in 2021 compared to the five-year average.
Ongoing conflict, spiralling food insecurity and COVID-19 have resulted in a near-doubling of people in need in 12 months – up from 9.4 million in January 2020 to 18.4 million in January 2021.
Up to 50,000 people are living in famine-like conditions and five million in immediate danger. A child dies every 10 minutes of preventable diseases such as diarrhoea, malnutrition and lung disease.
UNICEF provided medical supplies and consumables to cover the needs of 72,000 people. These supplies will support the continuity of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health services.
India + 7 more
This funding will be used to procure oxygen and testing supplies, medical equipment, personal protective equipment and infection prevention and control material across South Asia.
More than 150 children have been separated from their families and more than 170 children are feared to be missing as people fled the city of Goma following a volcano eruption.
Vaccine deliveries to Africa ground to a near halt in May as India diverted doses for domestic use. Between February and May, Africa received 18.2 million of the 66 million expected COVAX doses.
Ethiopia + 2 more
Humanitarians are gradually scaling up the response, but not yet keeping pace with the mounting needs, due to a combination of insecurity, access constraints, communications disruptions, lack of funding, limited capacity.
It’s been a while since we checked in with our users so I wanted to let you know what ReliefWeb has been up to in the past four months. We are pleased to report that user numbers are still rising. From the first quarter of last year to the same period in 2021, the number of users increased by almost 30 percent, to just over five million. In that same period, mobile use increased by almost 39...