Published November 23,2023
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The conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine are affecting funding for public well being emergencies and little one well being interventions in West and Central Africa, a UNICEF official stated on Thursday.
UNICEF head of Reproductive Maternal, Newborn Child and Adolescent Health for West and Central Africa Dr. Boon Alexandre stated funds for well being interventions to the area have decreased to about 50% as a result of ongoing wars.
“Whenever there is a big issue like the Israel-Palestine crisis and Russia-Ukraine war, they gather all attention from the superpowers like the US, UK, China,” he advised Anadolu in Lome, capital of Togo, on the sidelines of a media discussion board on public well being emergencies, diet and little one well being in West and Central Africa.
He defined that donor nations now channel most of their assets towards addressing the humanitarian state of affairs within the battle zones.
The UNICEF official stated the present state of affairs might deprive African nations of the a lot wanted useful resource to sort out excessive price of malnutrition, loss of life of new child little one amongst different public well being concern.
He urged governments in West and Central African nations to extend their well being price range to bridge the shortfall by attracting funds from donor nations.
The three-day media discussion board is being attended by about 60 well being journalists from 23 nations in West and Central Africa.
Source: www.anews.com.tr