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Tag: health
| UNRWA health programme hard hit in Syria but the UN agency's work is having an impact

| 21 May 2013
 Today, during the World Health Organization’s sixty sixth’s Annual World Health Summit, UNRWA released its Health Department 2012 Annual Report. |

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| WHO Director-General visits Shu’fat refugee camp


| 24 April 2013
 The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Margret Chan visited the Shu’fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, |

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| Russia donates US$ 2 million to UNRWA


| 22 April 2013
 For the first time, Russia has contributed US$ 2 million to the General Fund of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The funds will go towards supporting UNRWA health, education and social services programmes |

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| Italian Minister for International Cooperation and Integration meets Palestine refugees displaced from Syria


| 15 April 2013
 The Italian Minister for International Cooperation and Integration, Andrea Riccardi, has visited Shatila refugee camp near Beirut to meet with Palestine refugees displaced from Syria and witness first-hand their difficult living conditions. |

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| On the occasion of World Health Day, UNRWA highlights results of health reform in Lebanon


| 09 April 2013
 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) held a ceremony today in Lebanon Field Office to present the results of health reform activities generously funded by the Italian Development Cooperation beginning in 2010. |

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| On World Health Day, UNRWA launches campaign against diabetes and high blood pressure

| 07 April 2013
 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) marked World Health Day today by launching a campaign to combat the growing problem of diabetes and high blood pressure in the Palestine refugee community in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, and Lebanon. |

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| A life filled with tragedy, Gaza woman learns she has diabetes and hypertension


| 02 April 2013
 During the three-week conflict in Gaza in 2009, Nimeh Hawwas, a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, lost her son Ashraf, her grandson Ahmad, and her home, which was demolished as a result of the shelling of a neighboring house. |

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| Palestine refugees struggle with trauma and lack of protection in conflict-torn Syria


| 02 April 2013
 In December 2012, thousands of Palestine refugees fled air strikes, clashes and shelling in Yarmouk camp, Damascus, seeking shelter in UNRWA buildings. |

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| World Health Day 2013

| 01 April 2013

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) marks this year’s World Health Day with a campaign to combat diabetes and sustained high blood pressure, or hypertension among Palestine refugees. In cooperation with the World Diabetes Foundation, UNRWA is launching a six-month |

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| UNRWA combats anemia in Lebanon


| 26 March 2013
 In response to the high prevalence of iron deficiency anemia – the lack of red blood cells to provide oxygen throughout the body – among Palestine refugees in Lebanon, UNRWA routinely screens those with a high risk, including pregnant women and infants under a year, |

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