MaximsNewsNetwork: SOMALIA REFUGEES AFGOYE CORRIDOR UNICEF & WHO

MaximsNewsNetwork: SOMALIA REFUGEES AFGOYE CORRIDOR UNICEF & WHO Tube. Duration : 2.53 Mins.

MaximsNewsNetwork: 24 November 2009 - UNICEF: A UNICEF health campaign reaches displaced communities in Somalia's Afgoye Corridor for the first time, providing at least 46000 children with a life-saving health package. For the first time ever, the Child Health Days Campaign reached displaced communities in Somalias Afgoye Corridor, providing at least 46000 children with a life-saving health package. The Afgoye Corridor is a 30-kilometer stretch of road west of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, where more than 500000 people displaced by conflict have sought refuge. And it is one of the places in Somalia where humanitarian access is limited, due to extreme insecurity. The five-day campaign in Afgoye is part of a nation-wide programme supported by UNICEF and WHO, to promote child survival in a country where one in every seven children dies before the age of five and routine immunization is amongst the lowest in the world. Every under-five child is immunized against measles and polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, and provided with Vitamin A, de-worming tablets and nutritional screening. In Afgoye, 37000 women of child-bearing age were immunized against neonatal tetanus. The Child Health Days package also includes oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoea, and water purification tablets. This intervention is crucial in a location such as Afgoye, the most densely populated settlement in the world for the displaced. Living conditions are harsh, and basic social services ...

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LIFE - PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR (SOMALIA)

LIFE - PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR (SOMALIA) Tube. Duration : 1.12 Mins.

By Caroline Copley GENEVA | Fri Jul 8, 2011 1:35pm EDT GENEVA (Reuters) - The lives of half a million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk, international aid agencies said on Friday, as the worst drought in decades forces thousands of people to flee their homes each day. High food prices and the driest years since the early 1950s have pushed many poor families in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti into desperate need, UNICEF said. "We have over two million children who are malnourished. Half a million of these children are in a life-threatening condition at this stage -- a 50 percent increase over 2009 figures," UNICEF spokesman Marixie Mercado told a news briefing. Child malnutrition rates in some camps are at least 45 percent, triple the emergency threshold, Mercado said. Child mortality rates are also very high. "At one camp in Ethiopia it is above the emergency threshold of four deaths per 10000 children per day and that is also the case in the Turkana district of Kenya," she said. UNICEF has appealed for .9 million to help treat seriously malnourished children across the region over the next three months. It plans to set up child immunization campaigns, especially against measles which can be deadly in unvaccinated children, and provide safe water and better sanitation. CHILDREN DYING ON WAY TO CAMPS The number of people in need of food assistance across the Horn of Africa region is expected to rise to 10 million from previous forecasts of 6 million, the ...

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