Santé

In a country plunged into a severe economic crisis and where the price of basic products has increased, buying sanitary protection has become very expensive. Première Urgence Internationale has distributed dozens of reusable menstrual panties to address this menstrual insecurity.

While the maternal mortality rate has risen sharply in recent years in Yemen, Première Urgence Internationale supports health centres in the north of the country to ensure safe and institutional deliveries.

Since the end of June, the town of Sebba, in the north of Burkina Faso, has been under blockade by radical groups, hampering the supply of food and severely weakening the functioning of health structures.

More than half of Afghans need humanitarian aid in a country where the health system collapsed a year ago after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) came to power. A change in governance that has also changed the working conditions of NGOs on the ground. Interview with Justyna Bajer, head of mission of Première Urgence Internationale in Kabul.

Since 2011, Libya has been undergoing strong political and economic instability, accentuated since 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced with such factors of tension, the health sector has been deeply impacted, particularly in the district of Al-Marj, in the northeast of the country. It is in this context that Première Urgence Internationale decided in March 2021 to support the rural clinic of Ahmed Al-Gheriani.

Since August 2021, Première Urgence Internationale teams have been providing primary health care services to displaced people throughout Iraq. Abdullah, a nurse, tells us his story in one of the health centers in the north of the country.

Première Urgence Internationale provides medico-nutritional support and strengthen the primary health system in areas affected by the crisis in Mali.

The security context continued to deteriorate in Burkina Faso during the year 2021, and the town of Sebba, in the Yagha province in the Sahel, remains the target of multiple armed attacks against the civilian population. The population movements generated by these acts destabilize the town and put great pressure on the health sector. Following the attack on the village of Solhan, Première Urgence Internationale was able to mobilize in order to set up an advanced health post (AHP) capable of responding to the needs of vulnerable populations in terms of both health and nutrition.

In Yemen, 66 percent of the population are estimated to need humanitarian assistance in 2021, according to the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) analysis. Over 2.25 million cases of children aged 0 to 59 months, and more than a million pregnant and lactating women, were projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021 (HNO, 2021).

The community of Banat in Sudan, like many other communities in South Kordofan Eastern Corridor living in the proximities of Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) controlled areas has been greatly affected by decades of conflict and isolation. Nawal and her child Ibrahim Abdul Amid Adam adged of 2 years and 9 months old have been approached by Health Community Volunteers of Première Urgence Internationale to reffer her child to Banat Health Facility because he was ill.