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Highlights
- Devastating impact of US funding cuts on partners’ ability to deliver life-saving health services inside Myanmar, but also in the border areas with Thailand, where large number of Myanmar refugees no longer have access to health care.
- Zero additional funding commitments for health cluster partners towards the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Myanmar since 1 January 2025 - Continuing Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) outbreaks in 9 out of 17 States, with media reporting active outbreaks in 5 States, including Yangon (See Epi Bulletin for details). Health and WASH cluster partners are closely collaborating to rapidly respond to any alert which might indicate a potential cholera outbreak.
- Lack of access to clean water contributing to a significant increase in reported skin infections and possible scabies cases, particularly in crowded settings.
- Malaria remains a major concern throughout the country, aggravated by chronic shortages of malaria supplies including insecticide-treated nets and interruption of vector control interventions to reduce the mosquito population.
- Water-borne and vector-borne diseases are only expected to further expand during the upcoming rainy season. - Lack of access to leprosy treatment is impeding many health partners from providing relevant medicines to this disabling disease. Without the adequate treatment leprosy may cause progressive and permanent disabilities.
- Limited vaccine availability is resulting in a steady decline in vaccination coverage, with around 1.2M children under 5 never receiving any vaccination, increasing the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, diphtheria, and whooping cough, and the potential reemergence of polio.