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Margarita Plotnikova Schools are closed, public events banned and travel restricted for a three-week period after the first death from H1N1 flu was confirmed by the Ministry of Health last week and a state of emergency was announced in several…

According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the country has now recorded more than 250 000 cases of influenza-like illness, with 235 patients requiring intensive care. As of 2 November, 70 deaths from acute respiratory illness have been…

by Ruth Bücker/ SRI In Ukraine, almost 70 people so far have died from different forms of influenza, more than 191.000 got infected. The proportion of infections with the so-called "swine-flu" contained in these statistics is unclear. What is for…

On 28 October 2009, the Ministry of Health of the Ukraine informed WHO, through its Country Office in Ukraine, about an unusually high level of activity of acute respiratory illness in the western part of the country, associated with…

Executive summary The second largest country in Europe, Ukraine is a republic that gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. After a difficult transition period to the market economy the country remains one of the poorest in Europe, despite…

Appeal Target: US$ 197,725 Geneva, 2 September 2008 Dear Colleagues, Western Ukraine is suffering distress caused by the strongest floods they have experienced for the last 70 years. It assailed the region with torrential downpours from July 23 to…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in 185 countries. In Brief Period covered by this Final…

On the 31st of August (Thursday), the Government of Japan and the United Nations (UN) decided to extend assistance totalling 1,236,598.41 US dollars (approximately 139.74 million yen), through the Trust Fund for Human Security to a project entitled "Improvement of…

Oksana Shved , Ukrainian Red Cross Ukrainians are tallying the costs after weeks of savage cold took the lives of almost 900 people and left another 5,500 hospitalised with frostbite and hypothermia. To support the Ukrainian Red Cross Society's (URCS)…

Summary UNDP (together with UN OCHA, UNICEF and WHO) has commissioned a report “Human Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident. A Strategy for Recovery” , which proposed a new vision of tackling the problem: “rather than focusing…