Abuja (ICRC) - Health care workers in Nigeria can now use smartphones and tablets to improve the quality of diagnoses and drug prescriptions for children under five thanks to an initiative from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute...
Monrovia (LNRCS/ICRC) - Nearly 1,250 Liberian law enforcement and fire service officials have trained in basic first aid this year with the help of the Liberian Red Cross (LNRCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Manila (ICRC) - Through a four-year pilot project that improved tuberculosis (TB) control processes in the Quezon City Jail (QCJ), more TB cases were found and treated among the detainees, and mortality rates significantly dropped.
باتت حياة آلاف المدنيين في خطر محدق مع اقتراب جبهات القتال التي أصبحت تحيط بهم إحاطة السوار بالمعصم شرقي حلب.
Manila (ICRC) - Nearly 7,000 people have been displaced for more than a month following armed clashes between government security forces and armed groups in Basilan province, southern Philippines. These families left their homes and sources of livelihood after the hostilities started in November.
Thousands of civilians' lives are in danger as frontlines close in around them in eastern Aleppo. As the battle reaches new peaks and the area is plunged into chaos, thousands with no part in the violence have literally nowhere safe to run.
In recent days, surgical teams from the ICRC have treated over 90 people wounded in the bomb blasts in Madagali and Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria. Nigerian Red Cross volunteers administered first aid to the wounded in both incidents.
Ces derniers jours, les équipes chirurgicales du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge ont pris en charge plus de 90 personnes blessées dans les attentats qui ont frappé Madagali et Maiduguri, dans le nord-est du Nigéria.
A public awareness campaign on respecting ambulances' right of way, entitled RastaDein, was launched in Karachi in 2016 as part of the Health Care in Danger project. A marked improvement has since been noted in motorists' behaviour.
Delegations from Argentina and the United Kingdom today agreed, in principle, on the mandate that they will jointly entrust to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to carry out the identification of Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.
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