Conflict & humanitarian

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

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Red Cross teams at the border areas in Egypt, Chad and Ethiopia provide basic health services to the displaced people. Credit: ICRC

Sudan conflict leaves health system in ‘total collapse’

2 May 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian

Chukulisa Molu Adi, a young mother of two. Credit: Allan Kiprotich Cheruiyot

A fighting chance: translating routine vaccination for Kakuma’s multilingual refugee population

10 Mar 2023

6 min read

Conflict & humanitarian COVID-19 Videos Routine immunisation

Fertilizer exports have been hampered by the exclusion of Russian banks from the global SWIFT payments system coupled with the reluctance of insurers to cover shipments in a war zone.

This is how war in Europe is disrupting fertilizer supplies and threatening global food security

2 Mar 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian

People on the ruins of collapsed buildings in Syria. Credit: Khaled Akacha on Pexels

5 ways in which earthquakes can threaten our health

14 Feb 2023

7 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Cholera

Clinicians Sudani Abdi Awad and Sahra Ali giving the MMR vaccine shot to a child in Derkhale Ward, Banissa Constituency. Credit: Mohamed Ali, Mandera County press.

Curbing measles in Kenya’s conflict-troubled Mandera County

31 Jan 2023

4 min read

Measles Conflict & humanitarian Routine immunisation

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an Indigenous hospital and the Indigenous health support house in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, on Jan. 21. Credit: © Ricardo Stuckert/Palácio do Planalto/Agência Brasil.

Yanomami health disaster prompts outrage as Lula vows to tackle crisis

31 Jan 2023

7 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian

Hadiza Ibrahim and Adama Mohammed. Credit: Bukola Afeni

Mothers in Nigeria’s Wassa IDP camp spread the word: breastfeeding can save infant lives

26 Jan 2023

6 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Explainer

Polio vaccination campaign in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria in 2019. Conflicts such as those in north eastern Nigeria can hinder immunisation efforts. Credit: Rotary International

The peril of polio control in shadow of war

22 Dec 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts Polio Conflict & humanitarian

Parts of the Bayelsa community still submerged in water. Credit: Eric Dumo

Flood-displaced Nigerians rely on humanitarian intervention to stay healthy as outbreaks threaten

24 Nov 2022

5 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Cholera

Experts are warning that millions of people are at risk as a famine hits Somalia. Mehmet ali poyraz/Shutterstock

Somalia: four lessons from past experience of dealing with famine

31 Oct 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian Outbreaks

People get clean drinking water from a portable water filter pump manufactured by Faisal Mubarak.

After the floods comes disease: IDP camps in flood-hit Pakistan

7 Oct 2022

6 min read

Malaria Conflict & humanitarian

Mothers wait to have their babies vaccinated in Nkwen, Bamenda. Credit: Akem Olives Nkwain

Cameroon maps out strategy to reach zero-dose children with immunisation

21 Sep 2022

3 min read

Zero-dose children Routine immunisation Conflict & humanitarian

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