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Gazans need polio vaccines amid ‘deathly cycle’ of hunger, heat and disease, say UN aid agencies
More than 190,000 Palestinians have been displaced in four days in Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis, while the toll in Khan Younis rose to 73 deaths and 270 injuries as of 23 July, said Gaza's MoH.
Approximately 88 households have been displaced and are living in six temporary care centres after an outburst of violence following an alleged land dispute in villages near the Sepik River.
From April 2023, WHO has verified 88 attacks on health care – including on health facilities, ambulances and transport, assets, patients and health workers – resulting in 55 deaths and 104 injuries.
The floods pose a risk to children’s health beyond death and injury, compromising safe water supplies and increasing risks of disease and diarrhoea outbreaks leading to dehydration and malnutrition.
Assessment shows the spike in directly targeting schools has continued throughout this escalation with a significant increase in the targeting of UNRWA school buildings in the past two months.
Heavy rainfall and flash floods have affected thousands of people, including IDPs, host communities, and refugees in parts of Kassala State, 10,178 newly arrived IDPs from Sennar State.
According to Landmine Monitor 2023, Ukraine recorded 608 landmine casualties in 2022, more than any country in the world bar Syria, and most casualties come from anti-personnel mines.
This year’s rainy season comes after a particularly uncharacteristic dry season in which heavy rains and flooding, linked to El Nino and human-induced climate change, have devastated communities.
While an estimated 99% of children in oPt received their third dose of polio vaccine in 2022, this fell to 89% in 2023, according to the latest routine immunization estimates.
While an estimated 99% of children in oPt received their third dose of polio vaccine in 2022, this fell to 89% in 2023, according to the latest routine immunization estimates.
To date, 149 states have acceded to the Refugee Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol. UNHCR – as guardian of the Refugee Convention – is urging the remaining 46 UN Member and Observer States to join it.
Increasing food insecurity and malnutrition, challenges in accessing safe water and sanitation, as well as risks to disease outbreaks such as cholera, are a serious threat, says UNICEF.
The needs are skyrocketing, yet MSF at Al Nasser hospital is witnessing a shortage of vital supplies. Al Nasser is facing an overwhelming increase in patients as other functioning centres are lacking.
The conflict in the South of Lebanon has exacerbated the multiple crises that have disrupted the education of the most marginalized children and youth in the country.
Thousands of schools have been severely affected across the Philippines, which has the highest number of children displaced in the last six years from weather-related events at 9.7 million.
More than 800,000 people, comprising 183,464 families, have been affected by the confluence of the southwest monsoon, tropical depression Butchoy, and Tropical Cyclone Gaemi.
About 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in 11 people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report.
The likely increase in rainfall in 2024 is very concerning given the number of people at risk in flood-prone areas, threats to WASH and the risk of water- and vector-borne disease transmission - MSF.
The funding will support food assistance and nutrition support to children with acute malnutrition and the vulnerable families affected by the worst drought in 40 years in HuÃla and Cunene provinces.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the total number of people within UNHCR's mandate remained relatively constant from 2014 to 2020 averaging around 9.4 million. However, it reached 15.7 million by end-2023.
Without sufficient access and programming, food insecurity and malnutrition will continue to surge. A staggering one in two children under five are estimated to be experiencing malnutrition or stunting.
Without sufficient access and programming, food insecurity and malnutrition will continue to surge. A staggering one in two children under five are estimated to be experiencing malnutrition or stunting.