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Tag: health
| 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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| Mind-blowing: four months after conflict, Gaza mental health in crisis
| 11 March 2013
Four months after the conflict in Gaza, we report from UNRWA’s health centre in Jabalia, northern Gaza, on disturbing post-traumatic stress figures from UNRWA’s Health Department. Read the painful human stories behind the statistics. |
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