MEDBOX | Country category Middle East and North Africa

	Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2021 UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2022) C1 View PDF(309) Download (115) Add to my MEDBOX Continuing a worrying decade-long rising trend, the number of people forced to flee due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order climbed to 89.3 million by the end of 2021. This is more than double the 42.7 million people who remained forcibly displaced at the end of 2012 and represents a sharp 8 per cent increase of almost 7 million people in the span of just 12 months. As a result, above one per cent of the world’s population – or 1 in 88 people – were forcibly displaced at the end of 2021. This compares with 1 in 167 at the end of 2012. During 2021, some 1.7 million people crossed international borders seeking protection and 14.4 million new displacements within their countries were reported. This is a dramatic increase from the combined 11.2 million a year earlier Tags: refugees, IDP, Internally Displaced Persons, conflict, humanitarian crises, Source: https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/publications
	Syria Economic Monitor, Spring 2022 : Lost Generation of Syrians World Bank (2022) C1 View PDF(27) Download (10) Add to my MEDBOX Economic conditions in Syria are projected to continue to be mired by prolonged armed conflict, turmoil in Lebanon and Turkey, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine. Subject to extraordinarily high uncertainty, we project that Syria’s real GDP will contract by 2.6 percent in 2022 (to US$ 15.5 billion in constant 2015 prices) after declining by 2.1 percent in 2021. Risks to the growth outlook are significant and tilted to the downside Tags: Syria, economics, socio-economic impact, conflict, Source: https://reliefweb.int/attachments/c21bdb
	Assessment of COVID-19 Detection Laboratories, 31 March 2022 Government of Libya, World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO View PDF(18) Download (9) Add to my MEDBOX By end of March 2022: 42 COVID-19 detection laboratories were assessed in the 1st Quarter 2022. 23 (55%) Labs are reported fully functional, while 19 (45%) requires assistance to fully operate (i.e., medical supplies, equipment, maintenance, and staffing). 34 (89%) labs have RT-PCR machines, while 4 (11%) doesn’t have. Most laboratories operate 1 shift of 8 hours 13 (34%), followed by 2 shifts of 16 hours 11 (29%). Over 1000 testing capacity per day is reported in Tripoli Biotechnical Centre Lab (5,000), Azzawya NCDC Lab (2,500), Tripoli NCDC public health lab (1500), Misrata NCDC Lab (1,300), and Misrata Medical centre Lab (1,300). The reported needs ranked per priority are equipment, consumables, and staff training; consequently Tags: COVID-19, Libya, detection, laboratoires, assesment, Source: https://reliefweb.int/attachments/aa0c93
	Air quality index Pakistan Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(43) Download (16) Add to my MEDBOX Pakistan is the world’s fourth most polluted country. Air pollution shortens the average Pakistani’s life expectancy by 3.8 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m3 was met.1 Some areas of Pakistan fare much worse than average, with air pollution shortening lives by almost 7 years in the country’s most polluted regions, like Lahore and Peshawar Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Africa Medical Supply Platform African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2022) CC Open external link (459) Add to my MEDBOX AMSP opens COVID-19 vaccines pre-orders for 55 African Union Member States Tags: Supply, Logistics, vaccine, COVID-19, resource platform, Source: https://amsp.africa/covid-19-vaccines/
	Africa CDC Dashboard COVID-19 Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (2022) CC Open external link (906) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: COVID-19, Epidemiology, dashboard, Africa, maps, live map, Source: https://africacdc.org/covid-19/
	A worsening health crisis for children UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF View PDF(20) Download (8) Add to my MEDBOX The consequences of the failing health system has immediate and longer-term impacts on children . April 2022 Available in English and Arabic Tags: Children, Lebanon, immunization coverage, Malnutrition, Impact, conflict, hunger, access to health care, Refugees, Source: https://www.unicef.org/lebanon/worsening
	The Regional Training And Certification Program For Biosafety And Biosecurity Professionals (Arabic Version) African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2022) C1 View PDF(53) Download (34) Add to my MEDBOX Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research, to prevent their unauthorized access, loss, theft, misuse, diversion or intentional release Tags: biosafety, outbreak prevention, prevention and control, Epidemic Preparedness, preparedness and response plan, biosecurity, Capacity Building, training guide, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/the-regio
	Snapshot of whole of Syria health sector response, February 2022 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2022) C1 View PDF(583) Download (339) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: Syria, civil war, humanitarian aid, health sector, Source: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/si
	World Resources Institute Website World Resources Institute (2022) CC Open external link (163) Add to my MEDBOX WRI develops practical solutions that improve people’s lives and ensure nature can thrive. WRI have deep expertise in policy, research, data analysis, economics, political dynamics and more. WRI work with partners in more than 50 countries and currently have offices in 12 countries: Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States Tags: planetary health, training, education, resource platforms, Economics, Impact, Policy, Source: https://www.wri.org/resources/type/resea

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