WHO EMRO - Somalia-infocus

February updates

A total of 1 511 people (including 785 children under five years of age and 520 women) received lifesaving health services in two targeted districts; Baidoa and Berdale district of Bay region this month through the funding received from UN-CERF.
Cholera cases continue to be reported in Banadir, Hiran and middle Shabelle region. The total cases reported in 2020 are 1781 with 10 deaths.
Surveillance data from the Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) recorded 465 342 consultations in 412 (77%) out of 535 health facilities during the month of February 2020
Diseases causing the highest morbidity were acute respiratory infections (31 022 cases) and acute diarrhoea (21 262 cases).
In February 2020, cluster of AWD/cholera cases were reported from Jowhar district. 10 stool samples were collected and analysed, of which six were positive for Vibrio cholerae.
In February 2020, a total of 312 injuries were reported from Jubbaland, Galmudug, Southwest state and Banadir Region (17 were children under five years of age and 102 were female).

WHO Health Emergencies Programme situation report, February 2020

Related reports

Situation report, January 2020

Situation report, December 2019

Situation report, November 2019

Situation report, October 2019

Situation report, September 2019

Situation report, August 2019

Situation report, July 2019

Situation report, June 2019

Situation report, May 2019

Situation report, April 2019

Situation report, March 2019

Situation weekly polio update: week 5 2020

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One new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) - positive sewage sample has been identified this week from an environmental surveillance (ES) site in Mogadishu, collected on 5 January. This brings the total number of cVDPV2 isolated from ES in 2019 and 2020 to six.
No new cases of children with cVDPV2 were reported this week. The date of onset of the most recent case of cVDPV2 in a child with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) was 8 May 2019. A total of three cVDPV2 cases were reported in Somalia in 2019.
No new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 3 (cVDPV3) - positive cases or environmental samples were identified in 2019 or 2020 to date. The date of onset of the most recent case of cVDPV3 in a child with AFP was 7 September 2.

Somalia weekly polio update, week 5 2020

2018 Situation reports

Situation report, Issue 6

Situation report, issue 5

Situation report, issue 4

Situation report, issue 3

Situation report, Issue 2

Situation report, Issue 1

Key updates, 20 December 2018

No new human cases reported from Somalia for three consecutive weeks. The total number of cases remains 12: five cVDPV2 cases, six cVDPV3 cases, and one case with cVDPV2 and cVDPV3 co-infection.

All outbreak response activities for 2018 have been completed; planning is underway to design the 2019 vaccination activities and detail phase two of the outbreak response plan.

Somalia cVDPV situation report, Issue 17, 20 December 2018

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