It’s estimated better access to medical oxygen could reduce childhood pneumonia-related mortality in India by at least 35%.

If we assume 70% of the world’s people need to be immunised to achieve herd immunity, that means producing vaccines for more than 5 billion people. To put this into context, the global demand for vaccines totalled 3.5 billion doses in 2018.

This week, the UN Secretary-General published his annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict. It helps countries like the UK understand what’s really happening in key conflicts.

Written by Webster Makombe Whilst the trending phrases during the Covid-19 pandemic are “social distancing” and “self-isolation”, where I am from we are saying “kusiri kufa ndekupi”. A Shona call of desperation which translated into English means “caught in between a rock and a hard place”. The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world into a […]

In a camp in Syria a boy told our team, “We’re used to the war now. Even when it hits nearby, we hide in caves. But with this virus, we can’t hide.”

The take-up of our Emergency Grants Scheme gives us some indication of the level of deprivation some families are experiencing during this crisis.