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The IRC's COVID-19 response in northwest Syria
No running water. Crowded living conditions. Limited access to health care. This is the reality for nearly 1 million displaced people in northwest Syria, where the IRC has adapted our programs to protect people from the spread of COVID-19.
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- June 27, 2022
How to ensure no one is left behind with COVID-19 vaccinations
COVID-19 vaccines are rolling out across the world, but billions of people in low- and lower-middle-income countries will not have access to them this year. Here's what can be done.
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- June 27, 2022
Five ways the fight against COVID-19 goes beyond health care
Refugees and people experiencing crisis have been hit especially hard by COVID-19. Go inside the IRC’s innovative, lifesaving responses to the global pandemic.
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- June 27, 2022
How do we fight the COVID-19 "infodemic" to keep people safe?
IRC teams worldwide are tracking misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19 and working to counter them with help from digital technology.
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- June 27, 2022
A refugee helps to protect his community from COVID-19
Jonathan Amissa, a business owner and refugee from Cameroon, wanted to keep his staff safe from COVID-19. He ended up using his sewing skills to help protect the rest of the Boise community.
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- April 13, 2022
What your support means during the COVID-19 pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates in crisis zones like Syria, Yemen and the U.S.-Mexico border, your generosity helps the IRC to broaden our efforts as countries face a double emergency.
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- June 27, 2022
Morena Baccarin's video call: How COVID-19 affects Venezuelans
Over 4 million Venezuelans seeking safety in other South American countries now face the added threat of COVID-19. IRC Voice and actor Morena Baccarin recently caught up with IRC country director Marianne Menjivar, who she met in 2019 during a visit to IRC programs in Colombia.
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- April 13, 2022
Confronting the cold and COVID-19 in a refugee camp
Syrian refugees in Jordan face a surging COVID-19 crisis on top of unemployment, barriers to accessing education, and other daunting challenges.
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- December 11, 2020
How to protect people in a refugee camp from COVID-19
People living in crowded refugee camps have no way to "social distance." Learn how the IRC team in Kenya's Kakuma camp, now home to some 194,000 refugees, is helping people stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- July 5, 2022
Syrian refugees in Jordan's Zaatari camp on getting the COVID-19 vaccine
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to strain health systems around the world, Jordan became one of the first countries to proactively vaccinate refugees. The IRC's Zaatari health clinic is now administering COVID-19 vaccines to the 79,000+ refugees living in the camp. Hear from Syrian refugees who received their shots.
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- June 27, 2022