05/15/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Safeguarding Health in Conflict. Published: 5/15/2019. In 2018, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition documented 973 attacks on health care in 23 countries in conflict, which are discussed in this 35-page report. The report documents attacks against vaccination workers, paramedics, nurses, doctors, midwives, patients, community volunteers, and drivers and guards, in violation of longstanding human rights and humanitarian law norms to protect and respect health care in conflict. It discusses violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which posed a great threat to containing the spread of the Ebola virus disease. (PDF)
05/15/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means. Published: 5/15/2019. This Web page provides the testimony of witnesses who spoke at a Congressional hearing about the economic and health consequences of climate change, and why rapid action on both mitigation and adaptation is needed to reduce the health effects and stem the large financial losses that will result from climate change if left unchecked. They detailed the health effects of climate change and the main pathways in which they will occur. (Text)
05/14/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS). Published: 5/14/2019. This 10-page issue brief discusses the anticipated scope and scale, key priorities, and humanitarian constraints of attacks and clashes between armed groups and Congolese security forces in the Nord Kivu and Ituri provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These attacks and subsequent displacement of thousands of people come at a time when the transmission rate of Ebola cases is increasing in this area. (PDF)
04/16/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations (UN). Published: 4/16/2019. This Web page provides information and presentations from a seminar held on April 16, 2019, that represented an opportunity to discuss issues such as interoperability, standardization, and training issues regarding rapid response teams for incidents of the use of biological weapons. Lessons learned and challenges faced during previous international response missions were shared among the participants. (Text)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 3/2019. This 54-page report summarizes the progress made in the areas of European Union-wide enhanced molecular typing for disease surveillance, genomic surveillance, and multi-country outbreak support. It also documents how Member States use whole genome sequencing (WGS) in public health operations, and reviews the current evidence for the effectiveness of WGS. (PDF)
09/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Peace Institute (IPI). Published: 9/2018. This 44-page paper aims to assist the Security Council, relevant United Nations (UN) agencies, UN member states, and other stakeholders in upholding their obligations under international humanitarian law. It maps the UN counterterrorism framework and looks into the extent to which it guides states in complying with these obligations. It discusses how counterterrorism measures have had an increasingly adverse impact on the provision of medical care and the conduct of principled humanitarian action in armed conflict settings. (PDF)
08/22/2018 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS). Published: 8/22/2018. This seven-page report details how conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is hampering humanitarian access of health workers to the local population, as well as driving displacement across the border to Uganda, and how cross-border movement means the spread of the disease to Uganda remains a risk. It discusses the anticipated impact, response capacity, and lessons learned by Uganda from previous outbreaks. (PDF)
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