The non-profit, self-governed organisation "delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare", its website adds.
The project aids Doctors Without Borderswhich provides help in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect or catastrophe primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care or natural disasters.
Emergencies may take the form of disasters, socio-political conflict, epidemics, systematic human rights violations, or any other situation which puts at risk the rights and well-being of women and children to such an extent that extraordinary measures are required.
Doctors Without Borders is a nonprofit organization delivering emergency medical aid worldwide to people affected by conflict, epidemic and disasters.
This paper presents findings from a systematic review of the literature (2005 2017) on palliative care in humanitarian crises (e.g., disasters, armed conflicts, epidemics).
Full Mid-Year Review July 2010 [PDF] Full report [PDF] Summary report [PDF] Regional Mid-Year Review July 2010 [PDF] ESARO map [PDF] Humanitarian needs are increasing across the Eastern and Southern Africa region as families face multiple crises including natural disasters, conflicts, epidemics, food insecurity and further erosion of their coping mechanisms and livelihoods.
In supporting partners to operationalize the new DRR framework UNICEF will promote, as appropriate, a multi-hazard approach linking measures to address disasters, climate change, conflict and epidemics.
If humanitarian agencies had good digital maps now of places that are particularly prone to natural disasters, conflict or epidemic diseases, they'd be ahead of the curve, and could respond properly as soon as a crisis occurs.
Yet as Bangladesh inexorably turns into a salt-water marsh and millions of its people -- those who survive long enough -- become refugees seeking survival on an Indian sub-continent likely welcoming them with epidemics, conflict and starvation, the U.S. Senator who absurdly claimed global warming was a massive hoax will never be held accountable, nor will the constituents who kept re-electing him.
Nonetheless, until very recently, no research has been done to address the impact of armed conflict on TB epidemics in the Somali Regional State (SRS) of Ethiopia.
In 2016, UNICEF will continue to work with partners, including the Government of the Sudan, to reach children affected by conflict, natural disasters, epidemics and chronic underdevelopment, particularly in hard-to-reach areas.
