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Iraq scales up efforts to improve maternal and child health in line with Dubai Declaration commitments

Iraq scales up efforts to improve maternal and child health in line with Dubai Declaration commitments

17 December, 2013 — The Ministries of Health of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government, together with WHO, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other health partners launched Iraq's national acceleration plan for maternal and child health on 17 December 2013. The 3-year acceleration plan delineates cost-effective...

Syrian Arab Republic: put polio risk above all other interests

Syrian Arab Republic: put polio risk above all other interests

6 December 2013 - The push to immunize all children against polio has been hampered by the ongoing crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. WHO and UNICEF have appealed to all parties to cooperate, including through temporary pauses in hostilities where needed, to allow vaccination campaigns to take place and for all children to be protected. When Dr...

Safe roads for all

Safe roads for all

The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims was started by RoadPeace in 1993 17 November 2013 – The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims was endorsed by the United Nations on 26 October 2005 as a global day to be observed every third Sunday in November each year, making it a major advocacy day for road traffic injury...

WHO update on polio outbreak in Middle East

WHO update on polio outbreak in Middle East

UNICEF13 November – A comprehensive outbreak response continues to roll out across the Middle East following confirmation of the polio outbreak in the Syrian Arab Republic. Seven countries and territories are holding mass polio vaccination campaigns with further extensive campaigns planned for December targeting 22 million children; in a joint...

Over 20 million children to be vaccinated in Syria and neighbouring countries against polio

Over 20 million children to be vaccinated in Syria and neighbouring countries against polio

UNICEF A week after the Middle East declared a polio emergency in the region, mass vaccination against polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases under way Geneva, New York, 8 November – The largest-ever consolidated immunization response in the Middle East is under way to stop a polio outbreak, aiming to vaccinate over 20 million children in...

Progress of HIV epidemiological research in the region

Progress of HIV epidemiological research in the region

4 November, 2013 – A dedicated supplement of key scientific studies on the HIV epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region was published today in the journal of Sexually Transmitted Infections. The studies provide critical evidence from the field on the status of the epidemic in the MENA region and showcase the progress of HIV...

Sixtieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean

Sixtieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean

Members of the WHO Regional Committee attended the opening of the 60th session in Muscat, Oman28 October 2013 - The first day of RC60 begins today, 28 October 2013, in Muscat, Oman, in the presence of Ministers of Health, their Representatives and delegates of Member States of WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, representatives of national,...

Saving lives through inclusion

Saving lives through inclusion

Chamber orchestra of Al Nour Wal Amal Association play at WHO’s Regional Office to celebrate the International Day for Disaster Reduction24 October 2013 – The Kuwait Conference Hall at WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean was transformed into a concert hall as the Chamber Orchestra of Al Nour Wal Amal Association charmed the...

EMHJ introduces an online submission and peer review system

EMHJ introduces an online submission and peer review system

23 October 2013 – The Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (EMHJ) is pleased to announce that it has introduced a web-based submission and peer review system (Editorial Manager), which is in operation as of 20 October, 2013. We are now inviting all authors to submit their manuscripts through this system. Editorial Manager is a well-established system and is...

Increasing health vulnerability with over 780 000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Increasing health vulnerability with over 780 000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Dr Balladelli, WHO Regional Emergency Coordinator, with Marah, a Syrian refugee, at a refugee settlement in Tripoli, Lebanon14 October 2013 - Since the outbreak of the crisis, Lebanon has seen its population rise by nearly one third. For over two years Syria’s neighbours have struggled to cope with the protracted influx of Syrian refugees....

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