The number of cholera cases decreased globally by 60% in 2018, the WHO announced in a report that points to an encouraging trend in cholera prevention.
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The number of cholera cases decreased globally by 60% in 2018, the WHO announced in a report that points to an encouraging trend in cholera prevention.
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A global report on food crises finds that about 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute food insecurity in 2018, compared with 124 million in 2017.
The bad health of the new arrivals is said to be comparatively worse than before. Cases of trauma-related injuries, such as burns, shrapnel, wounds, etc are notable among the new population.
Cold weather, lack of water, sanitation and hygiene and shortages of healthcare leave them vulnerable to hypothermia and waterborne and other communicable diseases.
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Securing additional funds is critical to meet the humanitarian and resilience needs of vulnerable children in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey.
"Despite the best efforts of the humanitarian community ... the desperate conditions in Rukban are simply no place for a child to be born or to grow up" - UNICEF.
“Staggering levels” of humanitarian need persist throughout Syria, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told Security Council members on Tuesday.
The second joint UN-SARC aid convoy delivered desperately needed aid to more than 40,000 people stranded in the remote Rukban makeshift settlement in south-eastern Syria.
"Although fighting has subsided in Iraq, an estimated 1.85 million people, including 825,000 children, remain displaced,” said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director.
The joint UN and SARC inter-agency convoy will provide life-saving humanitarian aid to more than 40,000 displaced people at the remote Rukban ‘makeshift’ settlement in south-eastern Syria, on the border with Jordan.
The floods have swept away thousands of tents and caused concrete houses to collapse. Furthermore, one-quarter of the food stock in assessed locations was ruined in the flooding.
The situation in the camp is now critical. Its population has tripled in size (from 10 000 to almost 33 000 people) in less than two months. The authorities are overwhelmed.
"Millions are living under tents or tarpaulins, or in damaged buildings with no power or heating. There are severe shortages of all the basics - from blankets to baby milk to bandages." - UN relief chief.
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UNICEF's pre-positioned response includes distribution of winter cash aid, water and sanitation interventions, and distribution of more than 7,000 blankets and 5,500 items of winter clothing.
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Over the past six months, clashes and airstrikes in southeast part of the governorate forced about 25,000 people to flee. As well as women and children, many elderly people are at risk.
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Storm "Norma" has hit infrastructure, roads and homes across Lebanon, putting at least 70,000 refugees at risk, more than half of whom are children, based on latest humanitarian data.
Reports of illness are increasing and in the worst-affected areas, families are cut off from the outside world, unable to leave camps to access health facilities, says Save the Children.
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The snowstorm “Norma” is battering north-eastern Lebanon with heavy snow, rain and strong winds affecting nearly 250,000 refugees and devastating hundreds of camps and settlements.
The number of impacted children will increase if fighting continues and as more heavy rain is expected. Many of those children have been displaced, some multiple times.
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WHO and partners will carry out five major campaigns in Zambia, Uganda, Malawi, South Sudan and Nigeria as part of a global push to reduce cholera deaths by 90 per cent by 2030.