Yemen
Yemen has become one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises since the war began in 2014. Seven years of ongoing conflict and political instability have made 23.4 million Yemenis (73% of the country’s population) dependent on humanitarian assistance to survive. This includes 4.3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), the fourth-largest IDP population due to conflict […]
Syria
The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has created the perfect environment for the proliferation of leishmaniasis, a vector-borne disease that is transmitted by sand flies. Sand flies breed in cracks and crevices, in uncollected waste and the rubble of destroyed buildings. Accumulating household waste, general debris, rubble and ongoing bombardment and artillery shelling […]