Food crisis in East Africa
Click here to find out how Health Poverty Action is responding to the threat of famine in East Africa, and find out how you can help by donating to our emergency appeal.
Together with others, we have recently urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide needed leadership in addressing the threat to health, health systems and health worker retention posed by assaults on health personnel and facilities in times of conflict or civil disturbance. The latest reports stem from unrest in the Middle East, where doctors have been arrested and assaulted for complying with their ethical duty to provide care to patients in need, but they provide only a snapshot of a much wider problem of lack of protection of health functions during crises. To find out more read this blog by Leonard Rubenstein and Katherine Footer from the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Since the beginning of April, there have been over 2000 reported cases of AWD in regions of Cambodia and Laos where we work - find out what Health Poverty Action is doing to tackle it. Last modified: 04/08/2011
Protecting health systems and health workers in times of conflict
Acute Watery Diarrhoea outbreak in Cambodia and Laos
