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Mogadishu, 11 December 2022 – The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) and the World Health Organization country office in Somalia have recently signed an agreement to support WHO’s emergency health response to the current drought in the country.
In support of Federal and State Ministries of Health in Somalia, this important contribution will enable WHO to prevent and mitigate the adverse impacts of drought on health of the women, children and other vulnerable populations impacted by the ongoing drought, one of the worst in recent history.
The contribution received from the UK Government will enable WHO to scale up and sustain its integrated health and nutrition interventions in some of the worst affected, hard-to-reach and inaccessible areas where the people have been devoid of basic health and nutrition services for decades. The delivery of these interventions will support the “First-line Integrated Response Framework” endorsed by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) of Somalia. Under the rapid response mechanism of this framework, 4 life-saving sectors – health, nutrition, WASH and food security are delivering a set of life-saving interventions in an integrated manner as part of these sector’s ongoing relief assistance close to locations where these vulnerable populations are currently living. The delivery of these interventions has targeted women and children, among other vulnerable groups, as they have been the worst affected in this drought.
WHO intends to deliver part of these preventive health interventions, such as risk communication, nutrition screening, referral and distribution of micronutrient supplements, including identifying children who are sick and have missed out on routine immunization through the community health workers who are mostly female and drawn from the same communities in which these services will be delivered.
In addition, with this new funding from the UK, WHO…
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