Thousands more children need life-saving assistance now, and with the appropriate resources, we will be able to save lives".
At such times passive immunization with preformed antibodies can provide life-saving assistance in combating the pathogen or poison.
Military action is worsening the humanitarian situation, endangering lives and denying vulnerable Somalis access to desperately needed life-saving assistance.
Even United Nations contractors have been accused of siphoning food aid, resulting in extensive investigations and cuts in life-saving assistance.
She said Australian money would provide life-saving assistance, with $5 million for food and logistics through the UN World Food Program.
The UN has launched an emergency appeal for almost $120m to provide "life-saving assistance and protection" and has warned that 750,000 people need help urgently.
When we cannot do so personally, we are obliged to speak out in support of those risking their lives to provide life-saving assistance.
Humanitarian organisations said they would have to halt life-saving assistance this week if the ongoing blockade of Yemen was not lifted.
But the terrible truth is that at least 2.5 million Somali people continue to be in need of life-saving assistance.
Every day, humanitarian partners on the ground tirelessly deliver life-saving assistance to millions of people in need, unarmed and undeterred.
Somalia remains fragile with about 3.8 million people in need of life-saving assistance, out of a population of 9.5 million, and 1.4 million people internally displaced.
