ZIMBABWE
Current Situation • On April 23, the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) Ministry of Health and Child Care and relief actors concluded the first round of an oral cholera vaccination campaign, which targeted nearly 4438,000 people in rhius.u;ruqui and Chipinge districts, Manicaland Province, the L’N reports. The GoZ and relief actors plan to conduct a second round of cholera vaccinations in early May. Health actors had not congrmed any cholera cases in Ch4n.n*mani Chipinge, or other cyclone-affected districts of Zimbabwe as of April 26; however, the cyclone coned flooding that damaged WASH infrastructure, increasing the risk of transmission of waterborne disease-including choleza-among local populations.
• Local anthozities estimate that the cyclone displaced approximately 60,000 people in the four worst-affected districts-Manicaland’s Bashera, Chimanimani, Chipinge, and Mntare districts. Up to 96 percent of the IDPs are currently residing with host communities. The UN reports that the remaining 2,400 IDPs are honsed in more than 20 camp-like sites, the majority of which are in Ch+cnau,su.sui
• Dne to recent cold and wet weather in affected areas of Zimbabwe, relief actors are prioritizing the distribution of blankets and shelter supplies, according to the UN. WHO reports a 10 percent increase in acute respiratory infections from early to mid-April, which may indicate exposure to adverse ‘weather is contributing to deteriorating health conditions. Relief actors operating in Chisnsuim.ini also report that poor weather has hampered the delivery of medical supplies to affected areas of the district
• Relief actors have provided emergency food assistance to approximately 200,000 people in affected areas since the beginning of the emergency, according to the UN. This fignre includes more than 7,500 people assisted thrones a blanket supplementary feeding program instituted in the worst-affected wards of the two districts. A joint needs verification assessment conducted by relief actors and GoZ representatives identified nearly 192,000 food-insecure people in Chimanimani and Chipinge.
• The L’N estimates that approximately 15,000 women and girls in affected areas of Zimbabwe are at ask of gender-based violence (GBV). Relief actors operating in Zimbabwe are providing psychosocial support and GBV sensitization and have trained 30 facilitators in Chimanimani on GBV surveillance tools. Additionally, relief actors have documented more than 170 smaccompanied and separated children in affected areas, of whom nearly 20 children hare since been reunified with caregivers and family menabers, the remaining children have been placed in kinship care arrangements or alternative residential settings.
• As of April 17, nearly 70,500 people in Chimaniznani and Chipinge have regained access to safe chinking water through water trucking services, temporary repairs to water systems, and the provision of water treatment tablets, according to the UN. Repairs to the municipal water systems in Chimanimani and Chipinge towns and the sewer system in Chimanisnani district’s Ngangn town were ongoing as of April 17. The UN also reports that more than 5,000 household latrines in affected areas of Ilanicaland have been damaged or destroyed. Authorities in all affected districts are currently conducting ward-level WASH assessments to determine specific rehabilitation needs.