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De quoi s’agit-il ? Ce rapport vise à fournir aux gestionnaires d’infodémie, aux communicateurs et aux professionnels de santé publique des informations clés sur l’infodémie, afin de soutenir la...

On World Health Day, global leaders gathered in France for a milestone “One Health Summit**”**, where the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners announced a new wave of concrete actions to...

Experts in human health, animal health, food systems and ecology have long worked in silos. But the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside outbreaks of avian influenza, dengue, leptospirosis, and mpox – to...

Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO Recent discussions at the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) meeting (9-12 March)...

As the war in the Middle East enters its second month, Caritas Lebanon and its youth branch have scaled up their activities to address mounting emergencies in a country where the economic crisis and...

Summary: MCC’s partner is providing 34,000 meals over 30 days at various shelters in the Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel governates in Lebanon. More than 1 million people have been displaced by Israeli...

WFP has 70,000MT of food impacted by the war in the Middle East. About half of this is on chartered bulk vessels, and the other half is in containers, which are either en route or stuck in ports.

KEY TAKEAWAYS • Aid in Southeast Asia is set to further decrease as traditional donors announce aid cuts amid already falling levels of global aid. • An emerging challenge for Southeast Asia is the...

According to reports released for 2026, Life For Relief and Development (LIFE) has secured the third position among the world’s best humanitarian organizations for its rapid emergency response, the...

Introduction The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints, carrying around a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and significant volumes of liquefied natural gas and...

As the conflict upends shipping routes and supply chains, staff at the UN Humanitarian Response Depot are working to secure new corridors to transport life-saving food and other aid to vulnerable...

This report offers a snapshot of the aggregated data reported by Member States across the Europe and Central Asia region. It is based on data reported in the SFM system by 20 July 2025, following a...

World Health Organization (WHO) Member States have agreed to extend negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement, with discussions to resume in...

SITUATION OVERVIEW • Cuba's long-standing policy of providing free and universal access to basic services has historically reduced poverty and hunger. People's right to food is enshrined in the...

A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the crisis The combination of the heavy rains, flash floods, and swollen rivers in 2020 caused widespread destruction of infrastructure, health facilities,...

Crisis Overview The humanitarian fallout from the escalating hostilities in the Middle East and beyond is increasing by the day, with civilians bearing the brunt across the region. Civilians and...

RISK ANALYSIS Prioritized hazard and its historical impact. In post-independence Kenya, Cholera was officially first reported in 1971 in Turkana District. This outbreak was linked to the Seventh...

HIGHLIGHTS Over one thousand people have been killed and 2,584 injured. A humanitarian worker with children, a journalist and his spouse are killed, another journalist and a cameraman injured. 31...

New York, NY, March 20, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is warning that airspace closures across parts of the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are beginning to...

KEY HIGHLIGHTS WFP warns that continued escalation in the Middle East risks becoming the most severe disruption to humanitarian supply chains since COVID‑19 and the Ukraine war, with potential...