Iraq: Cholera Outbreak - Sep 2015 Updates

Introduction Cholera is endemic in Iraq, with periodic outbreaks recorded since 1966. Outbreaks typically follow seasonal increase in water contamination starting from July, with an increase in acute...

This is the first consolidated presentation of the reported results of CERF funding, covering a full year of CERF allocations. As such, it serves as a pilot and will inform future CERF results...

FOREWORD At the sixty-eighth session of the World Health Assembly in May 2015, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan committed the Organization to creating a single, all-hazards emergency programme; to...

Highlights Ten million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance in Iraq, of which approximately 4.7 million are children. UNICEF and its partners, including through the clusters...

HIGHLIGHTS USAID/FFP contributes $20 million in additional emergency food assistance to Iraq in February Italian firm Trevi signs agreement to refurbish Mosul Dam Insecurity in Iraq results in more...

94,380 Syrian refugees in 10 camps benefit from access to water, sanitation and hygiene services, with 86,195 benefiting from more durable, resilient water supply services DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS: ...

Baghdad, 23 February 2016 – In 2015, a rapid response by government and humanitarian partners in Iraq successfully contained a deadly cholera outbreak, which quickly spread from districts around...

Highlights • The estimate of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Iraq is revised upwards from 8.2 million to 10 million people (OCHA, Humanitarian Needs Overview). Nearly half of these are...

Highlights • An estimated 8.2 million people in Iraq remain in need of humanitarian assistance. • In December 2015, over 3.2 million people are displaced across Iraq, more than a million additional...

DRC: Violence between Hutu and Nande, in Miriki, Lubero, Nord-Kivu, allegedly over land, has left 17 dead and over 20,000 displaced. The displaced urgently need food and drinking water. Iraq: In...

Highlights Number of reporting sites: Seventy-nine (79) reporting sites including thirty-nine (39) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, four (4) in refugee camps and thirty-seven (37) mobile...

Zimbabwe: A poor 2014/2015 harvest coupled with delayed onset of rains this cropping season have left 1.5 million people facing food insecurity from January through March 2016. Government maize...

Highlights Number of reporting sites: Sixty-eight (69) reporting sites including thirty-eight (38) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, Six (6) in refugee camps and twenty-five (25) mobile...

Highlights Over 7 million people are in critical need of essential health care services in 2016. By the end of September the health cluster hit the 4M consultations provided by health partners in...

Highlights Number of reporting sites: Eighty (80) reporting sites including thirty-eight (38) in Internally Displaced Peo-ple’s (IDP) camps, Six (6) in refugee camps and thirty-six (36) mobile...

NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS: WASH sector partners continued to focus on Cholera preparedness and response in Refugee camps, including awareness raising on the Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) campaign. The...

NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS: • In November a total of 31,832 patient consultations (compared to 33,291 in October) were conducted in Primary Healthcare Facilities (PHCs) in the refugee camps. This translates...

Snapshot 16–22 December 2015 Cameroon: 2.9 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. 2.4 million are in need of protection assistance, predominantly in the Far North Region. The...

HIGHLIGHTS  On 22 November UNHCR opened the new Nazrawa Camp in Kirkuk Governorate. The camp will shelter 8,400 people, raising the camp capacity in Kirkuk Governorate to more than 16,000 people...

Highlights • As of 30 November 2015, 3,190,710 people (531,785 families) were displaced across Iraq and 453,318 individuals were reported as returned to their place of origin (IOM). • In one incident...