Reports

Highlights Dengue: 740 cases of Dengue are reported this week. The majority of the cases are from Rupandehi (210 cases), Kathmandu (180 cases), Lalitpur (140 cases), Kaski (83 cases), and Bhaktapur (38 cases). Malaria: Four Malaria cases are…

Gul Ghuttai Khalid, Khine Wut Yee Kyaw, Christine Bousquet, Rosa Auat, Dmytro Donchuk, Adam Trickey, Saeed Hamid, Huma Qureshi, Valentina Mazzeo, Khawar Aslam, Salima Khowaja and Rafael Van den Bergh Background In the high-prevalence setting of Pakistan, screening,…

Bhutan Hazard Overview Bhutan Is vulnerable to myriad natural disasters including earthquakes, floods, glacial lake out-burst floods (GLOF), landslides, and forest fires. Compounding exposure to natural hazards are the underlying vulnerabilities of Bhutan, including poor construction techniques,…

Highlights Dengue: 542 cases of Dengue are reported this week. The majority of the cases are from Rupandehi (223 cases), Kathmandu (72 cases), Lalitpur (41 cases), Kaski (33 cases), Kapilvastu (21 cases) and Tanahun (15 cases). Malaria: One…

Climate change is increasing public health risks while also making it more difficult to deal with disease outbreaks and other health crises through emergency and humanitarian action, according to experts at Deakin University’s Centre for Humanitarian…

The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) Report on Food Security and Agriculture is produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides a quarterly forward-looking analysis of major disaster risks to…

Introduction The island of Sri Lanka is located in the Indian Ocean, separated from the subcontinent of India by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. The country is also relatively small, covering a total land…

Introduction Papua New Guinea is among the largest Pacific island states located in Oceania, covering an area of 462,840 km2 . The country also occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, four additional islands,…

Introduction Philippines is an archipelago state, consisting of some 7,100 islands and islets, and covering a land area of approximately 300,000 km2 . The country comprises three groups or large islands: (1) the Luzon group in the…

Introduction Pakistan is located in South Asia, sharing borders with India, Iran, Afghanistan, and China. The total land area covers 770,875 km2 , which is divided into three major geographicregions: the Balochistan Plateau, Indus River plains, as…