Highlights Between January 19, 2020 till January 23,2020, there was heavy rains in the northwestern part of Madagascar, more than twice the normal precipitation during the rainy season, resulting in...
The major donors and partners of the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) included the Red Cross Societies and governments of Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, German, Ireland, Italy, Japan,...
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Author Matthew Ferrari Associate Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University The measles virus has been a part of human life for thousands of years. A recent study suggests that it appeared...
APERCU La sécurité alimentaire s'est améliorée à Madagascar par rapport à l'année dernière, mais des poches de fragilité subsistent, en particulier dans le district d'Ampanihy dans le Grand Sud. On...
Situation in Numbers 7.6 million: Children in need of humanitarian assistance 8.1 million: People in need 7.25 million: Children to be reached 7.3 million: People to be reached Highlights The measles...
OVERVIEW Food security has improved across Madagascar compared with last year, but pockets of fragility remain, especially in Ampanihy district in the south. An estimated 727,900 people will be...
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Children in Samoa are latest victims of 2019 outbreaks NEW YORK, 5 December 2019 – Children under the age of five accounted for most of the 140,000 people who died from measles in 2018, according to...
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The lean season has begun in Southern Africa, with nearly 12 million people severely food insecure, many unable to access clean water, and girls and women reportedly forced to resort to negative...
INFORMATIONS CLES 730 500 PERSONNES EN INSECURITE ALIMENTAIRE 188 550 ENFANTS SEVEREMENT MALNUTRIS 151 580 CAS DE ROUGEOLE APERCU GENERAL La sécurité alimentaire s'est améliorée dans tout le pays,...
KEY FIGURES 730.5K SEVERELY FOOD INSECURE PEOPLE 188.5K ACUTELY MALNOURISHED CHILDREN 151.5K MEASLES CASES OVERVIEW Food security has improved across the country, but pockets of fragility remain. An...
Highlights Madagascar has faced an unprecedented measles epidemic affecting all 22 regions (since September 2018), due to low measles vaccination coverage (58 per cent nationwide before the epidemic...
L’année 2018 a été marquée par des événements politiques majeurs, dont le plus important fut l’élection présidentielle, pour laquelle les préparatifs ont commencé depuis le mois de Mai. Durant cette...
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Overview This Weekly Bulletin focuses on selected acute public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 72 events in the...
(Antananarivo, 5 juin 2019) : Au terme d’une mission de trois jours à Madagascar, la SousSecrétaire générale aux affaires humanitaires et Coordonnatrice adjointe des secours d’urgence, Ursula...
(Antananarivo, 5 June 2019): At the end of a three-day mission to Madagascar, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Ursula Mueller called for...
UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief Ursula Mueller is in Madagascar to witness firsthand the prolonged impact of recurrent disease epidemics, including plague and measles, vulnerability to natural...
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This Weekly Bulletin focuses on selected acute public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 72 events in the region...
WHO: Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator WHAT: Mission to Madagascar WHEN: 3-5 June 2019 WHERE: Madagascar (Ambovombe,...
APERCU GENERAL Le nombre de cas de rougeole montre une tendance à la baisse depuis mi-février 2019. Depuis le début de l'épidémie, le 3 septembre 2018, au moins 139 550 cas et 1 242 décès,...
Since the middle of February 2019 the number of measles cases in the country have been showing a downward trend. Since the start of the outbreak on 3 September 2018, at least 139,550 cases and 1,242...
