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What Ebola can tell us about COVID-19
While the Ebola virus and the coronavirus are very different, we've learned a lot from Ebola that can—and must—be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- December 29, 2022
Meet Isabella, who provides families with fresh produce during COVID-19
Families in the Dallas area, including refugees, are relying on produce IRC New Roots coordinator Isabella Chamberlain harvests from the IRC's New Roots gardens every week. The gardens were created as a way for newly arrived refugees to settle into their new communities, earn an income from what they grow, and enjoy more fresh produce at home. But now Isabella is working alone, for safety.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Omicron: Triple threat of COVID, conflict, climate change in Africa
As new COVID-19 variants such as Omicron emerge, it’s more important than ever that world leaders address COVID, conflict and climate change in Africa.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Mitigating COVID-19 in humanitarian settings
The steps to contain COVID-19 should be designed locally, particularly in crisis settings, to avoid exacerbating humanitarian suffering. Read IRC recommendations.
- Report
- April 28, 2020
The only way to stop COVID-19? Vaccines for all
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic can only be achieved if vaccines are available in all countries to everyone, including refugees. Here's how we get there.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
IRC three-month impact report on COVID-19 (June 2020)
Some countries the IRC serves are only beginning to experience the impact of COVID-19. The IRC is using lessons from countries further along in their responses to scale our impact in areas where COVID-19 is spreading.
- Report
- June 23, 2020
Puppets "teach" children how to fight COVID-19
After six years of war in Yemen, the COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened a crisis that has left over half of the population hungry and nearly 4 million people internally displaced—all while the virus spreads at unprecedented levels.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Seven ways the IRC is fighting COVID-19, one year on
Learn about IRC innovations that are helping to protect families and communities from the most devastating impacts of COVID-19 in more than 40 countries.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Yemen on the brink: COVID-19. Starvation. War.
COVID-19 is surging across Yemen, even as an ongoing cholera outbreak worsens, food and water shortages increase, and civilians are being bombed. Here are eight facts about the situation on the ground.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
COVID-19 in humanitarian crises: a double emergency
The IRC finds conflict-affected and fragile countries face not only the direct health impacts of COVID-19 but also secondary havoc to already fragile humanitarian, economic, security and political environments.
- Report
- April 9, 2020