Burkina Faso: Escalating Conflict Is Fueling a Humanitarian Crisis in Eastern Burkina Faso
[MSF] The COVID-19 pandemic must not overshadow other urgent health needs (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burkina Faso: Out of Sight, People Suffer From Rise in Violence in Burkina Faso
[MSF] While COVID-19 makes headlines around the world, less visible humanitarian crises continue to deteriorate. In the villages of Burkina Faso's eastern region, killings, abductions and looting are now a regular occurrence. This is one of the areas most affected by the armed conflict between Burkino Faso's national security forces and various armed groups, which has seen large numbers of people displaced from their homes. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
265 Million People Could Face Hunger in ‘Unprecedented’ Crisis, World Food Program Expert Warns
The world faces an “unprecedented” food crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused both severe job losses and major disruptions in food supply chains, the U.N. World Food Programme’s Chief Economist warns.
“When you have these severe job losses, or you have big lockdowns, that means that those people become vulnerable,” Arif Husain tells TIME.
An estimated 265 million people could go hungry in 2020, nearly double the 2019 figures, according to WFP’s projection in April.
As millions around the world are losing their jobs or seeing their incomes cut, it’s increasingly diff...
Source: TIME: Health - May 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aria Chen Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 overnight video Source Type: news
IVI to strengthen COVID-19 surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa with support from Sweden
(International Vaccine Institute) The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) announced today that the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has contributed an additional 6,200,000 SEK (approx. 630,000 USD) to IVI to support national responses to COVID-19 in Madagascar and Burkina Faso. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 21, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Burundi: Coronavirus Response Takes Backseat As Election Looms in Burundi
[The New Humanitarian] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Bournemouth, UK -'The authorities are so busy with the election campaign, they do almost nothing to fight COVID-19.' (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 14, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Sudan: COVID-19 Brings Abuse and Other Fears to Displaced Women
[The New Humanitarian] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -'I'm scared because I can't manage to fight him back.' (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 7, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Marie Ba to Lead Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit
April 24, 2020Marie Ba is the new director of theOuagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit.The Ouagadougou Partnership is a coalition of nine francophone West African countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo—that are working together to expand family planning in the region.“She is the right leader to guide the coordination unit through 2020 and beyond.”Ba has been a member of the coordination unit for more than three years, starting as the regional program manager for advocacy and external relations and then moving into the deputy d...
Source: IntraHealth International - April 24, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Benin Burkina Faso C ôte d’Ivoire Guinea Mali Mauritania Niger Senegal Togo Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit Family Planning & Reproductive Health Leadership and Governance Advocacy Source Type: news
Burkina Faso: COVID-19 Will Worsen Access to Healthcare in Burkina Faso
[MSF] Widespread violence has forced almost 840,000 people in Burkina Faso to flee their homes over the past few months.Relief Web Djibo, a town in the Sahel region that had about 36,000 inhabitants in 2012, now hosts more than 140,000 displaced people. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burkina Faso: Escalating Violence Drives Thousands of Malian Refugees to Return Home
[VOA] The U.N. refugee agency reports escalating violence in Burkina Faso is driving thousands of Malian refugees to leave their camps and return to the war-torn homes they fled in search of safety. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Conflict-Ridden Regions Face Another Existential Threat in COVID-19
[VOA] In the West African country of Burkina Faso, rising insecurity has shuttered dozens of health clinics and left just three capable of carrying out coronavirus testing. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
The Fierce Urgency of Now – ECW Allocates $15M in Emergency Funds
By PRESS RELEASEApr 3 2020 (IPS-Partners) The Education Cannot Wait Global Fund (ECW) allocates a total of US$15 million in an initial series of emergency grants for the rapid delivery of holistic education services to protect and support vulnerable children and youth hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 16 countries/emergency contexts. These girls and boys are already impacted by armed conflicts, forced displacement, natural disasters and protracted crises. An additional series of grants to support the response in other crisis-affected countries will be released shortly and reach partners in-country in the coming days.
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: PRESS RELEASE Tags: Education Health Source Type: news
Medical aid marooned as Africa shuts borders amid coronavirus pandemic
Medical charity Alima planned to open an emergency operating theatre this week in Burkina Faso, but the project has stalled because the country closed its borders before a surgeon and anaesthetist could fly in, its director told Reuters. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Burkina Faso crisis and COVID-19 concerns highlight pressure on Sahel food security
Food insecurity levels in the Sahel region are “spiralling out of control”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday, as it expressed concerns about the potential impact on humanitarian supply chains because of restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Burkina Faso: Coronavirus Cases Rise - But Conflict Has Closed Healthcare Centres
[The New Humanitarian] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -'Armed violence has weakened the health system in dramatic proportions.' (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 31, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
COVID-19 Pandemic in Locations with a Humanitarian Response
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Published: 3/30/2020.
This map shows the number of confirmed cases and deaths from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in locations with Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) or other types of response plans. The countries include Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Сentral African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
