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    Prehospital emergency care - operational guidance for ambulance systems

    WHO’s Prehospital emergency care - operational guidance for ambulance systems provides detail on several key components of effective prehospital...

    Standards and recommendations for burns care in mass casualty incidents

    Caring for burns patients from the incident scene to definitive treatment can be a complex, resource-consuming process with the potential to overwhelm...

    High-priority Health services for Humanitarian response (H3 package)

    The H3 Package defines a set of prioritized health interventions that can feasibly be delivered to populations affected by humanitarian crises during protracted...

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    Afghanistan faces a harsh winter at a moment of heightened vulnerability and escalating humanitarian need. After multiple years of compounding shocks,...

    In 2025, needs were driven by the complex interaction of climate shocks, prolonged conflict and insecurity, large-scale displacement, chronic fragility,...

    After more than two and a half years of the conflict, Sudan remains locked in a humanitarian catastrophe of staggering dimensions. In 2026, 33.7 million...

    Cambodia and Thailand have long disputed several non-demarcated areas along their shared 800-kilometre land border.Tensions escalated in May 2025 following...