Conflict & humanitarian

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

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Leading Nurses Through Crises in Lebanon

22 Jun 2023

4 min read

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Children given Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTFs) at an acute malnutrition management centre. Credit: UNICEF

Community-based feeding centres are giving starving children a shot at life in Nigeria’s Katsina

22 Jun 2023

6 min read

Conflict & humanitarian

Habibu Musa, Abubakar Ahmad, Buhari Ibni Saidu and Nasiru Muhammed. Credit: Jesusegun Alagbe

Where delivering health care means facing down armed bandits

21 Jun 2023

8 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Spotlight on conflict and fragility

Child immunisations continue amidst conflict

2 Jun 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Conflict & humanitarian Routine immunisation

Women and children at a health camp set by the government

Flood-displaced and nine months pregnant: women survivors of Pakistan’s deluge tell their stories

4 May 2023

8 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Gender equality

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

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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

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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

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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

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