However, emergency funding for critical life-saving responses, including water and sanitation, will be exhausted by the end of 2012, putting children and their families at risk of outbreaks of diseases, malnutrition, school dropout and exploitation.
Later, I found out that she was still warm when the COs found her, and that neither of the officers had initiated a life-saving response.
After subtracting response latency, these katydids have sufficient time left (∼810 ms) for the performance of a life-saving escape response.
I am writing in response to a series of articles asserting that the Syrian government "controls UN aid" and that the UN has channelled funding intended for life-saving humanitarian response to the "Assad regime" (Reports, 30 and 31 August).
Anti-leishmanial treatment is life-saving but non-response or relapse can occur.
To continue life-saving activities in response to the 2012 monsoon floods, UNICEF urgently needs US$15.4 million to provide flood-affected communities with timely and adequate assistance through the next three months.
In 2010, while continuing its life-saving and immediate response in the northern zones affected by the conflict, UNICEF with the Government of the Central African Republic, NGO partners and other United Nations agencies, will respond to the humanitarian needs of more than 600,000 people in the conflict areas, including 240,000 children and those affected by malnutrition in the south-west region.
It can make a life-saving difference in emergency response, and in access and accuracy to information for everyone relying on GPS services.
At the intersections of the International Conference on Population and Development plus 15 and the Post-2015 Agenda, the timing is opportune to scale-up attention and access to such critical, life-saving services in humanitarian response.
The response includes life-saving services such as health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene – as well as investing in the future of children through access to education and child protection.
The ECHO grant will help UNICEF and partners in providing a well-coordinated humanitarian response through life-saving nutrition interventions for children under five, focusing on eight states in Darfur and Eastern Sudan.
