Juba, 30 January 2022 - South Sudan joined the rest of the world to commemorate the first World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day, a day marked to boost the global fight against NTDs which have...
Anna M Stewart-Ibarra, Leslie Rollock, Sabu Best, Tia Brown, Avriel R Diaz, Willy Dunbar, Catherine A Lippi, Roché Mahon, Sadie J Ryan, Adrian Trotman, Cedric J Van Meerbeeck, Rachel Lowe ABSTRACT ...
Cameroon + 8 more
In 2021, nine countries in the WHO African Region (Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic (CAR), Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, and Republic of Congo)...
Argentina + 12 more
Situation summary In the Region of the Americas, between epidemiological week (EW) 1 and EW 49 of 2021, a total of 1,324,108 cases1 of arboviral diseases were reported. Of those, 1,173,674 (89%) were...
HIGHLIGHTS Chad faces a combination of rapid-onset and protracted humanitarian crises that have been exacerbated by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 5.5 million people, including 2.7...
Afghanistan + 21 more
Current major event Dengue outbreak in Afghanistan In 2021, the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan reported a total of 300 suspected dengue fever cases with no associated deaths from 1 out of...
Ecuador + 2 more
Operational context Esmeraldas is a northern border province with Colombia in the Pacific zone and one of the main ports in Ecuador, being the terminal of the trans-Andean pipeline. According to...
En la actualización semanal sobre la situación de la pandemia en las Américas, la Directora de la OPS instó a los países a prepararse para la próxima pandemia abordando las amenazas para la salud que...
Brazzaville, 1 Octobre 2021 – La pandémie de COVID-19 a eu des conséquences catastrophiques sur les vies et les moyens de subsistance, mais elle a aussi stimulé la recherche scientifique qui a permis...
Brazzaville, 1 October 2021 – COVID-19 has had a catastrophic impact on lives and livelihoods. But it has also spurred impactful scientific research that gave the world a vaccine in record time and...
Sudan + 4 more
HIGHLIGHTS Over 300,000 people affected by heavy rains and flash floods in 14 states across the country. Over 15,000 homes were destroyed, over 46,000 homes were damaged. About 183,000 people were...
Sudan + 4 more
HIGHLIGHTS Over 288,000 people affected by heavy rains and flash floods in 13 states across the country. About 13,400 homes were destroyed, over 43,700 homes were damaged. Prepositioned relief items...
Sierra Leone + 1 more
Joint Press Release\ Freetown, Monday, 13th September 2021 -- The United States Government, through the COVAX Facility, has boosted the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Sierra Leone, with a...
Sierra Leone + 1 more
Freetown, Tuesday, 7th September 2021 --** The United States Government has donated 151,200 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to Sierra Leone to help accelerate the current COVID-19...
Doctors in Sudan’s Northern State have reported 27 deaths and 68 miscarriages among livestock in the area of El Nafaab in Merowe locality, and warn of the emergence of cases of Rift Valley fever* and...
Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action: This Operation Update is published to inform stakeholders of the progress achieved so far in implementing this DREF operation, as well as...
Joint Press Release Freetown, Sunday, 8 August 2021 – Sierra Leone has today received the second batch of 96,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine donated by France and delivered by...
Chad + 1 more
APERÇU L’est du Tchad fait partie de la bande sahélienne, et de ce fait, se trouve confrontée à des vulnérabilités liées à l’eau, aux urgences sanitaires et à l’alimentation, aggravées par les aléas...
Argentina + 22 more
Situation summary In the Region of the Americas, between epidemiological week (EW) 1 and EW 22 of 2021, a total of 728,831 cases1 of arboviral disease were reported. Of those, 673,148 (92.3%) were...
2020 IN REVIEWSUDAN HUMANITARIAN FUND AT A GLANCE HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT The Government has taken bold steps to advance Sudan’s economy, stability and peace, as the country underwent a period of...