Myanmar Health Cluster Bulletin December 2025

Highlights

• Further escalation of conflict with more deadly attacks on health care, totalling 70 verified attacks between 1 January and 30 December 2025 reported on WHO’s Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA), as compared to 240 attacks recorded by Insecurity Insight.
• Worsening access restrictions throughout the country, with life-saving supplies being blocked and confiscated, impeding partners to deliver essential health services.
• Resurgence of Acute Watery Diarrhoea cases in Paletwa towhship to villages along the Kaladan river, possibly linked to the expanding cholera outbreak among Burmese refugee camps on the Indian side of the border. Indian authorities have reportedly closed the border aimed at stopping the further spread of the disease. Health and WASH partners on the ground are supporting with essential response interventions, but WASH needs are vast as in the absence of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation, with communities forced to use river water for drinking and practice open defecation. -
• Severe shortages in bednets, and supplies for testing and treatment are resulting in a further expansion of malaria cases throughout the country. - Reduced funding for adequate shelter, food, nutrition, health and WASH services in IDP camps is directly linked to an increase in skin infections and acute respiratory infections (ARI), particularly among children.