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Highlights

• UNICEF participated in a joint UN relief convoy to deliver life-saving supplies to the embattled city of Aleppo, sending urgently required health, nutrition and WASH supplies. UNICEF supplies included diarrhoeal disease kits to treat 30,000 people, medical kits for 20,000 people, 2,000 family hygiene kits, cooking stoves, high energy biscuits and school supplies. UNICEF also delivered five generators and eight water tanks that will provide safe drinking water to more than 1 million people in Aleppo. The installation of these generators has already begun.

• UNICEF is now supporting 16 mobile medical teams in Lebanon to provide free and direct healthcare interventions in tented settlements. Since the start of May, 84 tented settlements and collective shelters have been reached with 23,013 (30 per cent of those in the visited settlements) having sought medical assistance. In the second phase of UNICEF’s vaccination campaign with Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon, 306,705 children have been vaccinated against measles, of which more than 45,943 are Syrian.

• So far this year, UNICEF and partners have provided psychosocial support to 68,113 children and adolescents (47 per cent male) in Jordan, with 15 per cent of these children and adolescents receiving more focused and more specialized case management services. Further, over 145,000 visits by children have been recorded in all playgrounds in camps to access recreational activities since January 2013.