UNHCR / CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES CHOLERA

In Chad, UNHCR is working with partners to ensure access to health information and safe water amid a Cholera outbreak affecting refugees from Sudan’s Darfur. UNHCR

• Video Length: 00:02:35
• Production Date: 8 August 2025
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGUEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEE ASSISTANCE; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN; CHAD
• MAMS Id: 3435173
• Parent Id: 3435173
• Alternate Title: unifeed250808d

Description

STORY: UNHCR / CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES CHOLERA
TRT: 02:35
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 30 JULY 2025, IRIDIMI, CHAD

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, refugees at an outreach center
2. Wide shot, refugees receiving a health talk
3. Med shot, health worker talking to refugees
4. Wide shot, refugees listening to the presentation
5. Med shot, refugees at a water truck
6. Med shot, refugees getting water
7. Close up, jerrycans being filled with water
8. Wide shot, young girl carrying a jerrycan
9. Wide shot, children carry water cans
10. Wide shot, refugees outside their makeshift tents
11. Wide shot, refugees at the Iridimi settlement
12. Wide shot, people walking around the settlement
13. Med shot, refugees carry tarpaulins at the settlement

Storyline

In Chad, UNHCR is working with partners to ensure access to health information and safe water amid a Cholera outbreak affecting refugees from Sudan’s Darfur.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urgently calls for an immediate injection of funds to scale up life-saving health, hygiene, water, shelter and nutrition support to avoid a health catastrophe.

Overcrowding in areas hosting the displaced, lack of clean water and limited health and sanitation facilities are accelerating transmission.

In Chad, UNHCR has suspended the relocation of refugees from the border to Dougui to prevent new cases of cholera. Handwashing stations are being set up, soap distributed, and latrines disinfected.

Medical supplies and personal protective equipment have been delivered to health facilities, and health workers have been trained to enhance identification and surveillance of cases.

Information on prevention and early treatment is also being provided across the settlements.

Despite rising needs, funding shortfalls are hindering response efforts both in Darfur and eastern Chad.