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With you The newsletter of the Hong Kong Office of the UNHCR 2013 Issue 3 Aid for Syrians in Winter R C H N U © Without us, refugees can experience dangerous gaps in vital aid. With us, they can get the all-round, practical assistance and protection they so desperately need. Emergency Response Update: Keeping People Healthy in a Crisis When someone has been forced from their home because of conflict or disaster they are often at increased risk of illness and disease. The combined stress and trauma of their experiences, coupled with poor food g supplies, infrequent meals, and overcrowded living conditions places the vulnerable, in particular children and n the elderly, at significant risk. i Keeping children, women and men healthy after they have fled their homes is crucial and with your support the p UN refugee agency (UNHCR) prioritizes health programmes that vaccinate children and keep families healthy. p o Stopping polio in its tracks in Jordan t S Even before the polio virus was discovered inside Syria, we were hard at work to protect refugee children against it. Polio is an acute virus that can spread rapidly from person to person. It can have serious and life-threatening ! consequences and can cripple a child for life. In October, with your support in the Za’atri refugee camp in Jordan, 120 community health workers and UNHCR have worked in 36 vaccination teams to make sure that all children under the age of 5 have received the vaccine. In just three days we reached and vaccinated more than 19,000 children, protecting them and their families. As part of our