Cox’s Bazar – Some 536,000 people have fled Myanmar and arrived in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, over the past 47 days, according to the Inter Sector Coordination Group of aid agencies.

Kathmandu – Nepal’s Ministry of Health and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, this week (11/10) hosted a half-day consultation meeting in Kathmandu on the development of a National Migration Health Policy to address migrant health issues.

Cox's Bazar  –  In a race to prevent an outbreak of cholera among over half a million Rohingya refugees, health teams in Cox’s Bazaar launched a mass immunization operation to dispense oral cholera vaccine.

Sana’a – As famine and cholera threaten to engulf Yemen in a vast humanitarian crisis, William Lacy Swing, Director General of the UN Migration Agency, on a visit to the country today (02/10), urged authorities to permit an immediate expansion of humanitarian access in order to save lives.

Sri Lanka ​-­ An International Consultation on Pre-Departure Health Assessments took place in Colombo from 26th -27th September, hosted by the Government of Sri Lanka with technical support from IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and financial support from the IOM Development Fund.

New York – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the Governments of Argentina, Ecuador, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland and Thailand will today (22/09) hold a side event on Promoting Migrant Health – Striving for Peace and Decent Life for All on the side-lines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Cox’s Bazar – IOM is working with Government and aid agency partners to rapidly ramp up fixed and mobile health services in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.

Tunis – On 15 August, IOM, the UN Migration Agency, organized a round table on Migrants Health in Libya as part of the regional project.

Mosul – Weeks after the retaking of Mosul city, many internally displaced persons (IDPs) are exhibiting signs of stress and anxiety.

Freetown – IOM, the UN Migration Agency and the Government of Japan last week (10/08) handed over the first water purification facility in Sierra Leone to the resettled community of Mile 6, Koya Rural.

The facility, located about 50 kilometers outside Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, will provide safe drinking water to the population resettled at Mile 6 in the aftermath of the flash floods that ravaged Freetown in September 2015.

Those floods caused widespread property damage and displaced thousands from their homes.