Women and children are particularly vulnerable in armed conflict, affected by both the direct and indirect consequences of violence, destruction and displacement, with both immediate and long-term implications for their health and well-being. This collection of articles in Conflict and Health reports on a set of case studies conducted by members and partners of the BRANCH Consortium, a research enterprise aimed at improving evidence and guidance for effective action on women’s and children’s health and nutrition in conflict settings. These case studies examine the humanitarian health response for women and children in a range of acute, protracted and post-conflict settings, focusing on whether and how health and nutrition interventions for women and children have been prioritized and the strategies employed by humanitarian health actors to overcome intervention delivery barriers.
The series includes:
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Impact of conflict on maternal and child health service delivery: a country case study of Afghanistan
Since decades, the health system of Afghanistan has been in disarray due to ongoing conflict. We aimed to explore the direct effects of conflict on provision of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adole…
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:38
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Responding to health needs of women, children and adolescents within Syria during conflict: intervention coverage, challenges and adaptations
Women and children suffer disproportionately in armed-conflicts. Since 2011, the protracted Syrian crisis has fragmented the pre-existing healthcare system. Despite the massive health needs of women and childr…
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:37
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C’est vraiment compliqué: a case study on the delivery of maternal and child health and nutrition interventions in the conflict-affected regions of Mali
Mali is currently in the midst of ongoing conflicts which involve jihadist groups, rebels, and the state. This conflict has primarily centered in the North of the country. Humanitarian actors delivering servic…
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:36
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Understanding the factors affecting the humanitarian health and nutrition response for women and children in Somalia since 2000: a case study
Somalia has been ravaged by more than two decades of armed conflict causing immense damage to the country’s infrastructure and mass displacement and suffering among its people. An influx of humanitarian actors…
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:35
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Maternal and child health service delivery in conflict-affected settings: a case study example from Upper Nile and Unity states, South Sudan
Decades of war left the Republic of South Sudan with a fragile health system that has remained deprived of resources since the country’s independence. We describe the coverage of interventions for women’s and …
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:34
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Health in conflict and post-conflict settings: reproductive, maternal and child health in Colombia
In conflict-afflicted areas, pregnant women and newborns often have higher rates of adverse health outcomes.
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:33
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Impact of conflict on maternal and child health service delivery – how and how not: a country case study of conflict affected areas of Pakistan
In conflict affected countries, healthcare delivery remains a huge concern. Pakistan is one country engulfed with conflict spanning various areas and time spans. We aimed to explore the effect of conflict on p…
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:32
8. Health services for women, children and adolescents in conflict affected settings: experience from North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of CongoInsecurity has characterized the Eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo for decades. Providing health services to sustain women’s and children’s health during protracted conflict is challenging. T…
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:31
Armed conflict, food insecurity, epidemic cholera, economic decline and deterioration of essential public services present overwhelming challenges to population health and well-being in Yemen. Although the maj…
Citation:Conflict and Health 2020 14:30
10. Investigating the delivery of health and nutrition interventions for women and children in conflict settings: a collection of case studies from the BRANCH ConsortiumGlobally, the number of people affected by conflict is the highest in history, and continues to steadily increase. There is currently a pressing need to better understand how to deliver critical health interve…