Conflict & humanitarian

Articles related to health and immunisation in conflict zones and humanitarian emergencies.

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Gavi routine childhood vaccinations for vulnerable children in Lebanon - Lebanese Red cross. Credit: IFRC

19,000 displaced Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian children protected from preventable illnesses in five months

31 Jul 2025

6 min read

Makeshift tents at the Rugombo transit site, where thousands of Congolese refugees live in precarious conditions. Credit: Diane Ndonse

Caught between conflict and exile: how Burundi is working to vaccinate Congolese refugee children

30 Jul 2025

6 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Zero-dose children

The main entrance to Gao Health Centre. Credit: Aliou Diallo

In Mali, vaccinators face down bandits and thieves to fight disease

29 Jul 2025

5 min read

Health worker heroes Zero-dose children Conflict & humanitarian

A child waiting his turn to get vaccinated, carried out by the local health center in Humra. Galabat Ash-Shargiah, Sudan. March 9, 2025. All images © Salih Basheer / Magnum Photos

Delivering Vaccines in Times of War

23 Jul 2025

6 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian

Panoramic view to the lower belt of Wabane, Southwest Region of Cameroon. Credit: Commons Wikimedia

Faith-based organisation bridges immunisation gap in conflict-affected regions of Cameroon

20 May 2025

4 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Routine immunisation

Cover image: READO staff on their way through Walaag 1 IDP camp in Somalia to the outreach facility to begin administering vaccinces. Gavi/2024/Mohamed Abdihakim Ali

Five things to know about Gavi’s humanitarian partnership immunising children in conflict zones

20 Jan 2025

4 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Vaccine campaigns ZIP

A mother and a child are now refugees at a transit centre in Renk, South Sudan where they arrived with others on 18 December after fleeing escalating violence in Sudan where the health system is collapsing from shortages of medical supplies, a loss of doctors, and destroyed or looted medical facilities. Copyright: Reason Moses Runyanga / UNHCR.

AI diagnostics can ease health crisis in war-torn Sudan

7 Jan 2025

3 min read

Innovation Conflict & humanitarian Cross-posts Diagnostics

A health worker administering polio drops to a child during nationwide door to door campaign in Pakistan. Credit: Gavi/2020/Asad Zaidi

In memoriam: VaccinesWork remembers health care workers killed in 2024

23 Dec 2024

4 min read

Health worker heroes Conflict & humanitarian

A girl receives drops of an orally administered vaccine. Credit: IFRC/2024

Polio is haunting Gaza as vaccination campaign resumes

1 Nov 2024

5 min read

Polio Spotlight on polio Conflict & humanitarian

Children suffering of polio. Credit: Polio Eradication Initiative

Anne Wafula Strike: Polio anywhere is a threat everywhere

22 Oct 2024

4 min read

Cross-posts Spotlight on polio Polio Conflict & humanitarian

A GOAL health worker with a beneficiary family in South Sudan. Credit: GOAL South Sudan

Protecting children fleeing war in South Sudan

18 Oct 2024

5 min read

Spotlight on conflict and fragility Conflict & humanitarian

A destroyed house in Borodianka, Ukraine, with a children's play park in front.

From botulism to rabies: the unexpected health consequences of conflict in Ukraine

18 Oct 2024

5 min read

Spotlight on conflict and fragility Conflict & humanitarian

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