Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Afghanistan, Pakistan

HIGHLIGHTS

• Humanitarian partners urgently need more resources to sustain assistance for more than 1 million people currently displaced in north-west Pakistan due to conflict and insecurity since 2008.

• Low measles vaccination coverage continues to threaten the lives of thousands of children in Pakistan. From January to mid-May this year, 10,875 measles cases were reported, equivalent to 73 per cent of cases reported the whole of last year.