Ilyas Abdullahi Khalif

Beyond the funding gap: Somalia’s aid shock is becoming a primary health-care crisis

Abstract Somalia’s escalating humanitarian financing crisis is exposing a neglected dimension of health-system vulnerability: aid volatility can itself become a determinant of primary health-care (PHC) failure. Recent funding contractions have disrupted hospitals, primary facilit...

Somalia is battling concurrent outbreaks of cholera, measles, and diphtheria driven by severe drought and displacement

Somalia is experiencing concurrent cholera, measles, and diphtheria outbreaks driven by climate change, conflict, displacement, malnutrition, inadequate water and sanitation, and fragile health systems. This letter argues that these overlapping epidemics should be recognized as a...