Reports

New York, 27 September 2017 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President. It is an honour to speak to you this afternoon, for the first time since taking up my role as Emergency Relief Coordinator. All of you around this table…

New on polioeradication.org: Polio vaccines reach vulnerable children in hard to reach areas of Syria. Following flooding in Benue, Nigeria, the World Health Organization has deployed its polio infrastructure across the state to strengthen disease prevention efforts. Pakistan…

Lisa Schlein GENEVA — The World Health Organization says efforts are moving ahead to establish routine programs to vaccinate children against killer diseases in conflict-ridden Syria. Before the country’s civil war erupted in 2011, immunization coverage for children…

Geneva, 24 August 2017 Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy: Good afternoon. As usual we will give you a very brief political update, not much has been happening as you know in the past week since the Special Envoy…

Highlights WFP delivered food assistance for 4.2 million people in all 14 governorates in Syria, achieving 101 percent of its monthly plan. WFP delivered food assistance for over 197,700 people in hard-to-reach locations through five crossline inter-agency convoys. According…

1.0. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 Status of health care facilities As of June 2017, according to WHO’s Health Resources Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS), over half of Syria’s 111 public hospitals and half its 1802 public health care centres were…

Key highlights Three (3) new cases of cVDPV2 were reported this week from three new districts: 1 case from Deir Ez-Zor district, Deir Ez-Zor governorate; 1 from Boukamal district, Deir Ez-Zor governorate; and 1 from Tadmour district,…

Key highlights No new cases of cVDPV2 were reported this week. The total number of cVDPV2 cases remains 30 (29 cases are from Mayadeen district, Deir Ez-Zor governorate, and 1 case from Tell Abyad district, Raqqa governorate). Poliovirus…

Highlights In Syria, 1.33 million people in 432 hard-to-reach areas and nearly 93,000 others in eight besieged areas received critical UNICEF assistance since January 2017. However, humanitarian access remains extremely challenging in most areas of the country,…

New York, 27 July 2017 As delivered by Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Ursula Mueller Mr President and distinguished representatives, On behalf of the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Stephen O’Brien, I thank you for the opportunity to…