US official says measles next menace to Syrian children
A month after the UN Security Council demanded urgent access to Syrians in need, USAID assistant administrator Nancy Lindborg has told Al-Monitor that the Syrian government continues to hamper aid delivery and to bombard civilians with barrel bombs.
A senior US aid official has warned that the next health crisis facing Syrian children may be measles, as the Syrian government refuses to implement a UN Security Council resolution demanding urgent improvement in humanitarian access to war-battered populations.
In a March 31 interview with Al-Monitor, Nancy Lindborg, assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said that the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have managed to make progress against an outbreak of polio in Syria, but added, “What we are seeing with the coming of warm weather is the possibility of measles outbreaks.”
