Children bear brunt of Syria's healthcare collapse
11 years ago

Children bear brunt of Syria's healthcare collapse

The Hindu  

The unending Syrian conflict has steamrolled the country's healthcare system, taking an especially heavy toll on children, who are enduring unspeakable suffering on account of dysfunctional hospitals, flight of doctors and a surge in infections, including polio. A report from Save the Children, released on Monday has pencilled the spotlight on Syria's rapidly collapsing healthcare system. High intensity battles are being waged by government forces and the armed opposition for the control of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, whose fate would be pivotal in deciding the course of the three-year-old conflict, which has already claimed over 100,000 lives. "Syria's health system is now in such disarray that we have heard reports of doctors using old clothes for bandages and patients opting to be knocked unconscious with metal bars, because there are no anaesthetics," observes the report.

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Protection for women and children in Syria: A path to inclusive recovery
2 months ago

Protection for women and children in Syria: A path to inclusive recovery

Hindustan Times  

The Syrian civil war, now in its second decade, has wreaked havoc on the lives of millions, leaving a trail of destruction that extends beyond physical infrastructure to deeply affect the social fabric of the nation. Fostering equal opportunity and protection for women and children can serve as a cornerstone of Syria’s recovery, paving the way for a more resilient, …

Over 1 million polio vaccines destroyed in Sudan conflict, says UNICEF
1 year, 10 months ago

Over 1 million polio vaccines destroyed in Sudan conflict, says UNICEF

Firstpost  

More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April, the UN children’s agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday. “A number of cold chain facilities have been looted, damaged and destroyed, including over a million polio vaccines in South Darfur,” Hazel De Wet, deputy …

Over 1 million polio vaccines destroyed in Sudan amid clashes: UN
1 year, 10 months ago

Over 1 million polio vaccines destroyed in Sudan amid clashes: UN

Hindustan Times  

More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April, the UN children's agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday. "A number of cold chain facilities have been looted, damaged and destroyed, including over a million polio vaccines in South Darfur," Hazel De Wet, deputy …

Polio or measles outbreaks soon? UNICEF's ‘gains eroded’ assessment
1 year, 11 months ago

Polio or measles outbreaks soon? UNICEF's ‘gains eroded’ assessment

Hindustan Times  

Almost 67 million children partially or fully missed routine vaccines between 2019 and 2021 because of lockdowns amid Covid pandemic throughout the world, United Nations said. "More than a decade of hard-earned gains in routine childhood immunization have been eroded," a new report from the UN's children's agency, UNICEF, said. Africa and South Asia were particularly hard hit, the body …

25 Million Kids Missed Routine Vaccinations Because Of Coronavirus Pandemic, UN Says
2 years, 8 months ago

25 Million Kids Missed Routine Vaccinations Because Of Coronavirus Pandemic, UN Says

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING GENEVA — About 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common diseases like diptheria, largely because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted regular health services or triggered misinformation about vaccines, according to the U.N. In a new report published Friday, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said their figures show 25 million children last year …

UNICEF: Syria’s war has killed and wounded 12,000 children
4 years ago

UNICEF: Syria’s war has killed and wounded 12,000 children

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Syria’s 10-year-long civil war has killed or wounded almost 12,000 children and left millions out of school in what could have repercussions for years to come in the country, the U.N. children’s agency said Wednesday. “One in four children have signs of psychosocial distress,” said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF’s Mideast and North Africa director. “This cannot be just another …

Syrian war being ‘forgotten and ignored’ after 10 years of deadly conflict
4 years, 1 month ago

Syrian war being ‘forgotten and ignored’ after 10 years of deadly conflict

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Syrian civil war is …

A Lost Generation: UNICEF Report Reveals COVID-19 Toll on Children's Health and Education
4 years, 4 months ago

A Lost Generation: UNICEF Report Reveals COVID-19 Toll on Children's Health and Education

News 18  

It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and while we count the massive death toll and economic losses, what is going unnoticed by most governments across the world is the disruption that this pandemic has caused in the lives of children and young adults. It was released ahead of World Children’s Day and is titled ‘Averting a …

UN: Millions of Yemeni children on the ‘brink of starvation’
4 years, 9 months ago

UN: Millions of Yemeni children on the ‘brink of starvation’

Al Jazeera  

Almost 2.4 million children could be malnourished by the end of the year, UNICEF warns, appealing for urgent aid. Millions of children in Yemen are at risk of starvation amid the coronavirus pandemic, which is tipping the war-torn nation into further devastation, the United Nations warned, appealing for nearly $500m in urgent humanitarian assistance. In a new report on Friday, …

Syria’s divisions damage efforts to mobilize against virus
4 years, 11 months ago

Syria’s divisions damage efforts to mobilize against virus

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — After nine years of war, Syria is broken into three rival parts unable to work together and ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus, an enemy that knows no conflict lines. In the last opposition-held enclave in Syria’s northwest, health officials are cobbling together what little they have to protect 4 million people crammed into a territory buckling under …

The War on Polio Just Entered Its Most Dangerous Phase
55 years, 2 months ago

The War on Polio Just Entered Its Most Dangerous Phase

Wired  

The oral vaccine also confers immunity in a less predictable manner. But it also means that a child who has received the weakened vaccine virus can pass the protective variety along instead, making them a secondary source of protection for other children who didn’t receive the drops. Roughly once out of every 2.5 million doses given, the weakened vaccine virus …

In photos: The precious objects bringing comfort to Syrian refugees
6 years ago

In photos: The precious objects bringing comfort to Syrian refugees

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When the times comes, it will be the responsibility of Syrian children to rebuild their …

7 years of war have taken a high toll on Syria’s children
7 years ago

7 years of war have taken a high toll on Syria’s children

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — After seven years of war in Syria, the United Nations has one thing to say: Stop the war on children. And in the first two months of 2018, more than 1,000 children have been killed or injured, according to the U.N. “The war is going on unabated with an incredible, unacceptably brutal impact upon children,” Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF’s …

Health workers in Syria rush to vaccinate 320,000 children amid sudden polio outbreak
7 years, 8 months ago

Health workers in Syria rush to vaccinate 320,000 children amid sudden polio outbreak

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Health officials in Syria are …

Syria Polio Outbreak: Steps being taken to eradicate the disease globally, WHO
7 years, 9 months ago

Syria Polio Outbreak: Steps being taken to eradicate the disease globally, WHO

India TV News  

A polio upsurge has been confirmed in an area of Syria partly held by Islamic State, the first re-emergence of the virus in Syria since 2014, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the World Health Organization said on Thursday. Nigeria, Laos and Congo have Afghanistan and Pakistan is still a victim of original wild virus, but vaccine-derived polio can resurface …

No vaccinations for children in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta
9 years, 1 month ago

No vaccinations for children in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta

Al Jazeera  

With no access to vaccinations for their children, Syrians in the besieged Eastern Ghouta fear the worst. Now, however, the threat that polio and other illnesses could return to Eastern Ghouta is real and will affect the lives of the children, who constitute 40 percent of the Ghouta’s overall population. “The transfer of these vaccinations into the besieged areas of …

Over five million kids affected by Syria conflict: Unicef
11 years ago

Over five million kids affected by Syria conflict: Unicef

India TV News  

Geneva : Some 5.5 million Syrian children fell victims to the three-year-old crisis in the war-torn country, the UN Children's Fund said Tuesday while releasing a new report on the prevailing situation in the country. Unicef also appealed for an immediate end to the violence and enhanced support for the affected.In the report titled -- Under Siege--the devastating impact on …

India's polio vaccination programme needs to be robust: UNICEF
11 years, 1 month ago

India's polio vaccination programme needs to be robust: UNICEF

Firstpost  

As India celebrates eradication of polio, Unicef today said it needs to make it complete immunisation system for children much more robust and accessible and tackle the status of women if it wants to really address the issue of mortality among children. New Delhi: As India celebrates eradication of polio, Unicef today said it needs to make it complete immunisation …

Polio in Syria: putting children above politics
11 years, 4 months ago

Polio in Syria: putting children above politics

Al Jazeera  

After 14 years, polio has made a comeback in Syria, courtesy of a ban on vaccination in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The underlying problem is not in Syria or in the Horn of Africa, the site of another polio outbreak this year, but in Pakistan and the other two endemic countries that have never interrupted transmission of the virus: …

Syria's Children Are Victims Of 'Appalling' Violence, Report Says
12 years, 6 months ago

Syria's Children Are Victims Of 'Appalling' Violence, Report Says

NPR  

Syria's Children Are Victims Of 'Appalling' Violence, Report Says Enlarge this image toggle caption Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images Unfortunately, this news is not a surprise: "As Syria's civil war has intensified, thousands of children have died in brutal attacks and many more have been injured, traumatized or forced to flee their homes," the international charity Save the Children …

A forgotten killer
15 years, 4 months ago

A forgotten killer

The Hindu  

Nearly one in ten children born in India will not live to see their fifth birthday, the under-5 mortality, on an average, for India, being 85 per 1000. Measles vaccine, in wide use since the 1980s is estimated to have saved 2.5 million lives, and is part of the Government of India immunisation programme. New vaccines The two newer vaccines …

Children's health: New polio worries in Africa-英语点津
17 years, 5 months ago

Children's health: New polio worries in Africa-英语点津

China Daily  

Children's health: New polio worries in Africa Download This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Health officials are launching a campaign to vaccinate eight million children after a case of polio was reported there. Health officials also announced last month that Nigeria has had almost seventy new cases of polio since two thousand five. The United States Food and …

POLIO
23 years, 11 months ago

POLIO

The Economist  

Health authorities are gaining ground on the polio virus, according to the global polio eradication initiative. Some 3,500 cases of polio, concentrated in 20 countries across Africa and South Asia, were reported worldwide in 2000. Last year 550m children under five years old were immunised against polio, in 82 countries. The global initiative would like to see polio flushed out …

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