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WHO's 25 September update logs 1,133 more confirmed cases and 532 more deaths since 11 September, and two new health zones — one bordering South Sudan — widen the outbreak's reach.
In surveys of internally displaced Haitians, 57.2% reported severe PTSD symptoms and 68.3% clinically significant depression. Community violence was the strongest correlate; resilience helped only at the margins.
Fighting after the 2021 coup concentrated where hospital access was already worst. The population living with both poor access and intense conflict rose from 0.4 to 3.1 million in three years.
A survey of 1,042 people in the Syrian city found high prices the leading barrier, and more than half said they knew of deaths they attributed to medication shortages.
A vaccine given in 2017 still cut cholera risk 78% five years on, new data show — even as collapsing water and health services let the outbreak spread through Artibonite and Centre.
A WHO data-set analysis shows how mobile and hospital teams split the load of hypertension, diabetes and epilepsy care during the war, while a separate study tracked dialysis capacity falling.
Among 383 dialysis patients, 83.6% screened for moderate-to-extreme anxiety and 58% for PTSD; a separate study of 250 displaced adolescents found trauma exposure tracking closely with post-traumatic symptoms.
Severe dehydration from diarrhoeal disease and sepsis can shut down the kidneys. In a health system with little dialysis, a review argues this is a preventable driver of death that surveillance is missing.
One study maps the five barriers that delayed life-saving crush-syndrome care; another finds the long-term health burden of the disaster fell hardest on young women.
A self-reported cross-sectional study of 599 residents found sharp deterioration across every measured dimension of oral health during the war — a neglected corner of the humanitarian-health picture.
A facility-based study of 5,053 infants finds undernutrition begins earlier than the age group nutrition programmes usually screen — and that weight-for-age caught far more of it than arm-circumference tape.
Before October 2023, Palestinian health authorities had documented 50 people living with HIV in Gaza. A viewpoint argues the collapse of testing and treatment has since erased that count entirely.
A prospective study of 660 Syrian refugees living with noncommunicable diseases found symptom burden peaked in the hottest, dustiest period — with asthma and hypertension carrying the highest risk.
A systematic review of the Syrian crisis and infectious disease in Lebanon names overcrowding, poor sanitation and blocked healthcare access — not the presence of refugees themselves — as the reported drivers.
A narrative review synthesising WHO, UNRWA and Gaza health-ministry field data reports the re-emergence of hepatitis A and poliovirus, over 200,000 diarrhoeal cases, and drug-resistant hospital pathogens.
Surveillance data show reported measles cases from Tigray collapsed during the 2020–2022 war; afterward the median age of infection fell to five years and the odds a case was unvaccinated stayed sharply raised.
A rare multicentre record from three Sudanese trauma centres finds penetrating injury in more than nine of ten patients, and civilians in the great majority.
A cross-sectional study of 96 war amputees, 53 caregivers and 95 community controls found sharply elevated disability and psychiatric symptoms, and argued for combined physical and mental-health rehabilitation.
In the first humanitarian trial of its kind, 400 refugees and hosts were randomised. AUDIT scores fell 4.6 points more with screening and brief intervention than with usual care at six months.
A Bulletin of the WHO study recorded 168 maternal deaths between October 2023 and June 2024, alongside higher stillbirth, neonatal-death and preterm-birth rates than before the war.
Two peer-reviewed studies chart the toll: among 122 Khartoum dialysis patients followed for up to 18 months, 53% survived, and those who stayed in the capital fared worst.
About 260,000 women died in pregnancy or childbirth in 2023; 37 conflict-affected or fragile countries accounted for 61% of those deaths while holding only a quarter of the world's births.
A UNRWA surveillance dataset of 265,974 arm-circumference measurements shows wasting rising during blockade, falling during ceasefire, then rising again — an unusually direct record of cause and effect.