Syrian Arab Republic news releases and feature stories

• WHO gravely concerned about humanitarian situation in northeast Syria

• WHO statement on mortality in Al Hol camp in the Syrian Arab Republic

• Vital contributions from Japan enable WHO to support health care services for Syrian children

• WHO statement on attacks against health care in north-west Syria

• Nurses who made a difference

• Syrian Arab Republic: tackling noncommunicable diseases (NDCs) in emergencies through primary health care

• WHO addressing leishmaniasis in high-risk areas of the Syrian Arab Republic

• Elizabeth Hoff: Seven years of tireless work in war-torn Syria

• WHO delivers healthcare to displaced people in north-west Syrian Arab Republic

• WHO supports the evacuation of a mental health patient from Al-Hol camp

• Turkish and Syrian health workers stand together to deliver health services for refugees

• Advancing paediatric care in Syria

• Supporting Syrian refugees in Turkey with the health services and guidance they need

• Flu season in north-west Syrian Arab Republic

• WHO condemns attacks on 3 health facilities in north-west Syria

• Kawthar defeats tuberculosis: improving access to diagnosis and treatment in rural areas in Syrian Arab Republic

• Aynaa's story: treating severe acute malnutrition in Syria

• Unexploded mines pose daily risk for people in northern Syria

• WHO concerned over critical health situation in Al-Hol camp, Al-Hasakeh

• Restoring hearing to a Syrian boy

• WHO airlifts medical supplies to meet increasing health needs in north-east Syria

• Hama National Hospital provides ray of hope for Syrian cancer patients

• WHO helps restore primary health care services in Aleppo

• WHO delivers largest cross-border shipment of health supplies to northwest Syrian Arab Republic to date

• The only tuberculosis control centre in Aleppo is up and running again

• WHO airlifts 21 tons of medical supplies to Al-Hasakeh governorate in north-east Syria

• Generous donation of medical equipment from Japan boosts public health services in Syria

• Critical funding shortage threatens WHO’s response in northwest Syria

• Attacks on health care on the rise throughout Syria in first half of 2018, says WHO

• WHO supports life-saving health care for people in southern Syria

• WHO launches the caring for the newborn at home initiative in Syria

• WHO delivers over 17 tons of life-saving medicines and medical equipment to the newly accessible city of Douma

• Al Moadamya primary health care centre in rural Damascus, Syria, reopens with WHO support

• WHO and health partners immunize hundreds of thousands of children in northern Syria

• Reaching out with mental health services for displaced Syrians

• Investing in the health of Syrians is an investment in the future of Syria, WHO says

• WHO delivers 185 tonnes of medical supplies to improve access to health services in northern Syria

• Surveillance teams risk all to track disease outbreaks in northern Syria

• WHO concerned about suspected chemical attacks in Syrian Arab Republic

• Northern Syria: access to primary health care gives hope to malnourished child

• WHO is providing urgent health services in response to displacements from Afrin

• WHO supports large-scale polio and measles vaccination campaigns in northern Syria

• WHO responds to critical health needs of thousands of Syrians fleeing East Ghouta

• Syria crisis: Afrin update

• Syrian Arab Republic: East Ghouta update

• Syria crisis: East Ghouta update

• Seven years of grief: Syrian doctors and psychologists talk about the mental scars of war

• Seven years of Syria’s health tragedy

• Helping Fatima get back on her feet

• WHO delivers life-saving health supplies to Deir-ez-Zor governorate in north-east Syria

• Saving the lives of Syrian mothers and children

• Beyond the bullets and bombs: Saving the lives of chronic disease patients living in conflict settings
• Spreading the word: how WHO partners engage people in northern Syria to vaccinate children

• WHO calls for immediate and unimpeded access to save lives in eastern Ghouta, Syrian Arab Republic

• First rehabilitated health centre in eastern Aleppo city, Syria, opens with WHO support

• WHO reinforces health care services for thousands of people in newly accessible areas of Ar-Raqqa governorate, Syria

• WHO supports polio vaccination campaign for nearly 200 000 Syrian children from Turkey
• Spreading the word: how WHO partners engage people in northern Syria to vaccinate children

• Danger in the rubble: fighting leishmaniasis in Syria

• WHO health supplies revive weakened health facilities in besieged Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate in Syria

Attack on vaccines sets back immunization efforts in eastern Syrian Arab Republic

• WHO accelerates shipment of medical supplies to conflict-torn northern Syria

WHO condemns attacks on hospitals and health workers in Idlib and Hama

• WHO responds to critical health needs of displaced populations in Al-Tabqa city, Ar-Raqqa governorate

• WHO delivers medicines and medical supplies to Al-Qamishli to support Ar-Raqqa response

• WHO shipment of polio vaccines to launch local vaccination campaigns in Deir-ez-Zor and Ar-Raqqa

• WHO is urgently appealing for US$20 000 000

• Syrian Arab Republic: Local health partners support referral of trauma patients from Deir-ez-Zor and Rural Ar-Raqqa to Al-Hasakeh governorate

• More than 12 000 treatments delivered to Ein Issa and Karameh camps in Al-Raqqa governorate

• Making the golden hours count: WHO trains Syrian health staff to treat chemical exposure and severe trauma

• Mobile clinics reach far-flung regions of Syria

• WHO and health partners provide vital care to displaced people in northern Syria

• Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 outbreak has been confirmed in Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate

• WHO mobilizes health response for Ar-Raqqa, Syria

• WHO increases support for cancer patients, the forgotten casualties of the Syrian war

• WHO alarmed by use of highly toxic chemicals as weapons in Syria

• WHO calls for increased support for health aid in Syria and refugee-hosting neighbouring countries

Bringing life-saving health services to Syria’s most vulnerable

Syrian Arab Republic: Wishes for Wafaa

• Addressing the silent impact of war: WHO expands mental health care services across Syria

• WHO reinforces monitoring of health facilities, services and resources in Syria

Health care a casualty of 6 years of war in the Syrian Arab Republic

• WHO support saves lives of malnourished children in Syria

• WHO mobile clinics bring health care to northern Syria

WHO briefs the UN Security on the health situation in Syria

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Joint Statement on Syria

• WHO: Urgent medical shipments to Aleppo, Syria. View a YouTube video [1 min]

WHO calls for urgent resumption of medical evacuations from besieged east Aleppo

• WHO reaches Dar Al Bushi residential home for elderly and disabled people

As thousands flee Aleppo, WHO and partners deliver health care

WHO steps up response in Aleppo and demands that health personnel be protected

• Aleppo health workers witness the worst day of their lives

• WHO: WHO supports overwhelmed primary health care centre in Mosul with lifesaving medicines and medical supplies

• WHO responds to increasing health needs in Aleppo, Syria

WHO supplies prosthetic devices for Syrians injured by conflict

Eastern Aleppo without any hospitals for more than 250,000 residents

• Update on WHO’s response to the Syrian Crisis
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WHO condemns massive attacks on five hospitals in Syria

• Attack targets health facility in Hama, Syria

• Health workers and patients between life and death in eastern Aleppo city

WHO calls for immediate safe evacuation of the sick and wounded from conflict areas

From safe blood transfusions in South Sudan to hospital equipment for Yemen: Wide-ranging support from Japan

• Health care increasingly out of reach for Syrians in eastern Aleppo City

From safe blood transfusions in South Sudan to hospital equipment for Yemen: Wide-ranging support from Japan

• WHO strengthens capacity of health care workers in Syria

• WHO again reaches East Ghouta, Syria, with supplies of lifesaving treatments

• WHO reaches more people in need with lifesaving treatments in Duma

• Kuwait supports insulin-dependent Syrians

• WHO condemns the attack on Al Ihsan Charity Association in Aleppo

• Vaccination campaign at risk as fighting intensifies in Syria

From safe blood transfusions in South Sudan to hospital equipment for Yemen: Wide-ranging support from Japan

• Kuwait boosts treatments for chronic diseases in Syria

WHO helps diabetes patients in Syria

• Five years #WithSyria. Read the story of the donors, watch a video and photo story on WHO's work in Syria

• Humanitarian sign of hope 5 years into the Syrian conflict: WHO increases its response to reach more people
• Read a Joint statement on Syria - 11 March 2016

• WHO Regional Director calls for urgent funding to support Syria health response

• WHO welcomes unprecedented international support for Syrians

• WHO delivers surgical kits and cholera tests for people in need in northern Syrian Arab Republic

Five years #WithSyria

Tracking attacks on health workers – Don’t let them go unnoticed

WHO's remarks on the continuing crisis in Syria

As Syria’s armed conflict grows, WHO aid to the region is unrelenting

• WHO and partners call for greater funding for the regional response to the Syrian crisis

• WHO airlifts from Damascus medical supplies to the besieged Deir ez-Zor city and Qamishly

• WHO partners with MENTOR Initiative to control leishmaniasis in Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor

• WHO–Kuwait partnership to help the people of Syria