Syria Crisis - World Health Organization Revised Appeal 2013

September 2013 - The humanitarian situation in Syria has rapidly deteriorated over the past year as a result of the civil war in the country. The United Nations estimates that 100 000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more wounded due to the violence. Within Syria some 6.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance 4.25 million of whom are internally displaced. In addition more than 2 million Syrian refugees are living in host countries in the region. By the end of 2013 the United Nations estimates that 10 million people in Syria will need humanitarian assistance and a further 3.55 million refugees from Syria will have fled to host countries where resources are increasingly overstretched by the influx of people needing assistance. With DFATD support the World Health Organization is contributing to providing health care to up to 6.8 million Syrians including health and nutrition services to 563 000 crisis-affected Syrian children as well as up to two million crisis-affected people in the region.

The expected outputs for this project include: improved access to basic and emergency health care services; increased access to mental health services; strengthened surveillance and public health preparedness and response for epidemic-prone diseases; improved safe water supply and sanitation and hygiene services for hospitals; strengthened integrated management of childhood illness; improved prevention diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases; and a minimum initial service package for reproductive health and water quality monitoring to prevent outbreaks of water-borne diseases implemented. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.