Nigeria: Adamawa Health Sector Working Group Bulletin - April 2018

HIGHLIGHTS (APRIL 2018) OF ADAMAWA STATE HEALTH SECTOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

• Joint supervision and monitoring visit to Daware Host community in Fufore LGA

• Commencement of the Operational Health Sector Working Group meeting (OHSWG) in Mubi North LGA

• Operational Inter-Sector Working Group (OISWG) team visit from Borno to Mubi North in Adamawa State

• Updates on the Voluntary and dignified repatriation of over 4,600 refugees of Adamawa State extraction from Cameroon

• Epidemiological updates of diseases

• Capacity building by UNFPA on prevention of rape, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse

NIGERIA HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIC HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE OBJECTIVES

• Objective 1: To provide life-saving and life-sustaining humanitarian health assistance to affected IDPs and host community population.

• Objective 2: To establish, expand and strengthen the communicable disease surveillance, outbreak prevention, control and response.

• Objective 3: To strengthen health sector coordination, health information management and health system restoration leading to improved service delivery with focus on enhancing protection and increased access to health care.