Burkina Faso: Partners reopen essential health facilities
Over 1 million internally displaced people (IDP) and people in host communities currently have no access to health care due to closure of key health facilities in the Sahel and Centre-Nord regions. Health Cluster partners have demonstrated an exceptional flexibility to ensure the delivery of services to vulnerable populations in high-risk areas.
Nigeria: Mobile Health Teams bring health care to communities
The joint efforts of the north-east Nigeria Health Sector partners have enabled mobile medical teams and clinics to deliver services to over 1.2 million people in 2019 and ongoing collaborations continue to increase this number.
Cyclone Idai response
Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in central Mozambique the night of 14 March 2019, causing widespread destruction and leading to significant population displacement. On 22 March, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee declared a humanitarian system-wide scale up for a period of 3 months and activated 9 clusters. WHO Mozambique was designated as the Cluster Lead Agency of the Health Cluster to provide support to the Ministry of Health.
Ebola virus disease outbreak in North Kivu, DRC
On 1 August 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in North Kivu Province. The Ministry of Health, WHO and partners are currently responding to this event.