Cholera cases surging globally since 2021, the International Coordinating Group calls for urgent action including improved sanitation and increased vaccine production. A global response is required.
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Cholera cases surging globally since 2021, the International Coordinating Group calls for urgent action including improved sanitation and increased vaccine production. A global response is required.
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Unlike in previous years, there were no mega-disasters in industrialised countries that drove losses up. Instead, the loss statistics were characterised by the large number of severe regional storms.
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A 25% rise in food insecurity increases the risk of conflict by 36%, while a 25% increase in the number of people without access to clean water increases the likelihood of conflict by 18%, says IEP.
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The 18 hotspots comprise 22 countries and territories that will see worsening food insecurity between November and April. Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan and Palestine are of highest concern.
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Millions of children are being denied their human right to an education and the numbers are growing. And even when they are able to go to school, the quality of education is simply too low.
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Conflict and violence threatens food security for 85% of 258 million people in 58 countries, according to a new Action Against Hunger report, released today.
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Data in Emergencies is a ground-breaking tool in its size, quality and speed - this is the first time that data on agricultural livelihoods in food crises is collected at this scale and frequency.
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In 2022, 258 million people across 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels (IPC/CH Phase 3-5), up from 193 million in 53 countries and territories in 2021.
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This alarming spread primarily affects countries with high levels of gender inequality. CARE is calling for sex disaggregated data on populations at risk to improve the humanitarian response.
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Alongside introductory, catch-up and follow-up campaigns, Gavi is supporting governments with dedicated outbreak response activities to counter the stall in the reduction of global measles deaths.
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Without a massively scaled up humanitarian response that has at its core time-sensitive and life-saving agricultural assistance, the situation will likely worsen in many countries in the coming months.
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Afghanistan and Somalia are new entries. These all have people facing IPC phase 5 – or at risk of deterioration towards catastrophic conditions, with 750,000 people facing starvation and death.
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"High food prices are hunger's new best friend. We already have conflict, climate and COVID-19 working together to push more people into hunger and misery. Now food prices have joined the deadly trio."
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Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020, says coalition of UN, EU, NGOs and government agencies.
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Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria top the list and face catastrophic levels of acute hunger, with pockets of South Sudan and Yemen already in the grip of - or at risk of - starvation and death.
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As COVID-19 continues to disproportionately impact women and girls hit by multiple humanitarian crises, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency has appealed for $818 million.
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This means one in 33 people worldwide needs help — a significant increase from the one in 45 people a year ago. The UN and partner organizations will require $35 billion to reach 160 million people.
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The pandemic has driven up food insecurity and increased vulnerability among migrants, families reliant on remittances and communities forced from their homes by conflict, violence and disasters.
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While the greatest need is in Africa, countries in Latin America, Caribbean and Middle East and Asia - including middle-income countries - are also being ravaged by crippling levels of food insecurity.
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There is a real concern about the growing risk of famine, potentially even several famines at once. Before the pandemic hit, 27 million people were in “emergency” levels of acute food insecurity.