This week we highlight how contributions to WHO are providing health services and supplies to snow-blanketed refugee camps, and vaccines to flood zones threatened with cholera.
WHO support is protecting remote Nepali villages from COVID-19, improving Timor-Leste’s health system, and providing much-needed refrigeration equipment for vaccination campaigns in Suriname and Belize.
Read on for details on all these stories:
In the thick of winter, WHO appeals for help to save Afghanistan’s collapsing health system
Polio workers in Afghanistan. ©WHO
WHO is urgently calling for international donors to find alternative ways to fund Sehatmandi, Afghanistan’s biggest health program, which lost its major funding last August after the Taliban takeover of Kabul and is increasingly unable to provide
vital primary health services.
“The recent funding pause … will cause the majority of the…
