WHO appeals for $1.5 billion to deliver healthcare in crises

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday launched a $1.5 billion emergency appeal to provide care to more than 87 million people this year in 41 ongoing crises, including in the occupied Palestinian territory, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria and the Horn of Africa.  https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2024/01/1145532
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WHO appeals for $1.5 billion to deliver healthcare in crises
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Explainer: How UN delivers life-saving aid amid crises

Explainer: How UN delivers life-saving aid amid crises

12 Oct 2023

What does it take to get food, medicine, emergency education, and shelter to record numbers of people in some of the most dangerous places on Earth? The UN does this around the world, including in Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Ukraine, and the occupied Palestinian territory.

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World News in Brief: Health access in Israel-Palestine, Myanmar bombing, child refugee mental health

World News in Brief: Health access in Israel-Palestine, Myanmar bombing, child refugee mental health

10 Oct 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for access to health and humanitarian assistance amid the conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Horn of Africa faces most ‘catastrophic’ food insecurity in decades, warns WHO

02 Aug 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the Greater Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises of the last 70 years.