The political landscape in Syria remains volatile with rapidly shifting lines of control necessitating a flexible and rapid humanitarian response. The number of Syrian refugees living in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey remains relatively unchanged at approximately 5.6 million. Increasingly complex and interlinked humanitarian needs continue to exist across Syria, resulting from numerous factors such as direct exposure to hostilities, multiple cycles of displacement, targeted and arbitrary detention, lack or loss of civil documentation as well as constraints on freedom of movement. Challenges to delivery of sexual and reproductive health services (SRH), including lifesaving emergency obstetric care and contraception, remain, emanating from an overstretched and dilapidated health system. Health facilities and frontline health providers continue to face threats of attack. Additionally, the risk of gender-based violence (GBV) remains acute and disproportionally affects women and girls, both inside and outside their homes. UNFPA is responding both in government-controlled areas via operations from Damascus and in non-government controlled areas in Northwest Syria via cross-border operations. UNFPA's response includes support for delivery of SRH and GBV services via a network of partner-administered facilities, provision of essential supplies and sustained capacity strengthening initiatives on the ground.
Within the Syria crisis region, which spans the Whole of Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, there have been a total of 124,553,69 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of November 30, 2020.