Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition

Insecurity Insight documents attacks on health workers, facilities and patients for the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC), a group of international nongovernmental organisations working to protect health workers, services and infrastructure.

The data for attacks on health workers, facilities and patients collected by Insecurity Insight for the SHCC are analysed in the Coalition’s annual report:

Critical Conditions: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict

In 2023, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documented 2,562 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in conflicts across 30 countries or regions within countries, or territories – over 500 more than in 2022, which constitutes a 25% increase. The increase was in part a product of intense and persistent violence against health care in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Myanmar, Sudan, and Ukraine. On average, health care was attacked seven times every day, and these attacks took place at a time when tens of millions of people in conflict-affected countries were already suffering from war, massive displacement, and staggering deprivation of food and other basic needs.

The report includes detailed profiles of 20 countries and territories where many acts of violence against health care took place. These include Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Haiti, Israel, Mali, India (Manipur state only), Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, the oPt, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.

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Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC)

Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC)

The SHCC is made up of 40 health provider organizations, humanitarian groups, human rights organizations, NGOs, and academic programs to take action to protect health workers and end attacks against them.

The coalition promotes the security of health workers and services threatened by war or civil unrest; strengthen universal norms of respect for the right to health; demand accountability for perpetrators; and empower providers and civil society groups to be champions for their right to health.