Background / Justification:
• Given the dire humanitarian situation & needs, our client supports a wide range of health & nutrition responses across Yemen. This ranges from preparedness & reporting to the immediate needs of responding to the risk of famine, disease epidemics / pandemics (ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, cholera, diphtheria & measles among other potential outbreaks), to preservation of the collapsing health system at all levels.
• According to most recent Yemen situation analysis report (June 2020), key child outcomes are a manifestation of Yemen’s weak health system. The national under 5 mortality rate has hovered around 55 per 1,000 children, although national under 5 mortality rate data are outdated. There have been sustained levels of chronic malnutrition in children under 5, hovering between 45 & 47 % since 2013. Acute malnutrition (wasting) levels in Yemen at any given time during the past 3 decades ranged between slightly above 10 % to slightly above 15 %. Th
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Rohingya Refugee Response - Bangladesh Factsheet - Public Health (31 October 2020)
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Integrate mental health interventions into general healthcare system
Health promotion and surveillance through community health workers
Develop community-based psychosocial awareness and support programmes
Treatment of acute malnutrition and enhance community engagement in identification and referrals of malnourished children.
Promote and support maternal, infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and maternal and child care practices
PROGRESS (SEPTEMBER- OCTOBER)
UNHCR works with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC), and other partners to strengthen health infrastructure and provide healthcare services to refugees and host communities. Curative and preventive health services are provided through 35 health facilities supported by UNHCR. Integrated mental health services are provided by trained general health staff, individual coun