Health

The mpox epidemic in the DRC is unfolding in a country already plagued by conflict, hunger and disease. Children are nearly four times more likely to die from mpox than adults, making them particularly vulnerable to this outbreak. Read the blog to learn more about the situation, our response, and how you can help.

"Since the start of the rains in June, flooding has added another layer of difficulty to delivering humanitarian aid to people in dire need"

Increased rates of acute malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has put millions at heightened risk of contracting and dying of mpox

Hundreds of thousands of children now displaced from their homes are facing disease, hunger from crop destruction, and disruption to their education

Press release Save the Children mpox spreading South Kivu DRC children

Staff account by a humanitarian worker in Haiti who has been directly affected by the rising violence

As children in Vietnam prepare to head back to school, many face safety risks due to damaged infrastructure after floods. Save the Children.

Save the Children staff account from a physician who has dedicated his medical skills to helping children in Gaza.

Children are particularly vulnerable to the new strain of the deadly mpox virus that is spreading globally

Save the Children press release Gaza school airstrike 100 killed children

Child casualties in Ukraine surge by nearly 40% in the first half of this year, in nearly 900 days of war. Save the Children press release

Massive landslides in India’s southwestern Kerala state have killed more than 385 people. More than 1,580 children displaced. Save the Children.

Extreme weather events forced at least 38,000 people from their homes in Afghanistan in the first six month of this year

Harrowing testimony by a paediatric nurse on her deployment to Gaza to support our medical and humanitarian efforts.

Save the Children press release on hunger and severe acute malnutrition in Sudan

Hundreds of children living in the remote Gofa zone of Southern Ethiopia remain at risk of death and injury from rain-induced disasters

After a year of record-breaking temperatures, it is important to understand how extreme heat affects children

Classes across the Philippines were suspended following a powerful typhoon that swept across the country.

Thousands of children in Pakistan at risk of deadly disease as monsoon rains start

Floods from heavy rains have killed about 40 people in eastern Afghanistan and about 1,500 children have lost their homes Save the Children said.

South Sudan on the brink of famine as it braces for worst floods in 60 years

An estimated 50,000 babies have been born in Gaza over nine months of conflict, with many women giving birth in traumatic, unhygienic and undignified conditions

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza and Sudan are at risk of famine. But what does that mean exactly?

Conflict in Sudan is driving hunger to record levels

Devastating new figures reveal Gaza’s child hunger catastrophe

The number of children killed, injured or facing other grave violations in Sudan soared six-fold in 2023 to a record high

Gaza's missing children: Over 20,000 children estimated to be lost, disappeared, detained, buried under the rubble or in mass graves

Save the Children press release immunisations Gavi conference

Yemen: Principals of affected United Nations Entities and International Non-Governmental Organizations demand the immediate release of detained perso

India’s heatwave shows no sign of abating as the country’s meteorological department warned of extreme heat.

A volcanic eruption in the Philippines has forced at least 684 schools to close.

As Thai children head back to school following a long summer break, a lack of funding has hindered many displaced children from Myanmar.

While monsoon rains are normal in Sri Lanka, impacts such as flooding are now more frequent and severe due to climate change

Save the Children’s analysis showed that more than 33 million children and 39 million adults live in both the “crisis” phase 3 of hunger as determined by the IPC

Attacks on ‘humanitarian areas’ highlight fallacy of the claim that civilians are safe anywhere in Gaza

Save the Children press release on response to landslide in Papua New Guinea

Save the Children has sent four emergency response teams to support in the recovery

Afghanistan: Nearly three in ten children forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, new figures show.

An anguished account by a young Palestinian that is stranded in Cairo whilst his family is enduring the war in Gaza.

More than half of Pakistan’s school age children – about 26 million - will be locked out of classrooms for a week due to an ongoing heat wave.

Afghanistan floods: ‘There is no life left for us here. You want to put your head in your hands and shout and cry.’

Around 1.4 million children in Burkina Faso are facing a hunger crisis.

Testimony by Jean-Claude a pediatric nurse in DRC who is at the forefront of the hunger crisis and is treating malnourished children daily.

A year of conflict has left Sudan’s immunisation safety net frayed. Gavi and Save the Children are helping vaccinators patch it back up.

A protracted drought across large swathes of the Philippines is impacting over 900,000 families

Testimony by Sacha Myers on her visit to the Gaza Strip where she saw the real horrors of this war and its impact on children.

On 6 May, Israeli forces ordered thousands of people to flee parts of Rafah. Over a million - 600,000 children - are at risk of forced displacement.

Nearly one in five children (17.9%) born this year will enter the world without a doctor, midwife or nurse present, putting them and their mothers in danger

Armed groups have trapped more than 140,000 people, including over 80,000 children, in the town of Menaka in Mali.

Bangladesh has ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools for another week following country-wide closures brought about by a heatwave.