Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition

Insecurity Insight documents attacks on health care in conflict for the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC), a group of international nongovernmental organisations working to protect health care.

Insecurity Insight’s data concerning attacks on health workers and facilities collected for the SHCC is analysed in the Coalition’s annual report. The following paragraphs summarise the latest report issued in 2026 and covering attacks on health care in conflict in 2025. Insecurity Insight also issues regular news briefs providing information on reported attacks on health care in conflict from open source monitoring and partner contributions. Additionally, Insecurity Insight has produced a handbook on security risk management for health care services in conflict settings and reports on explosive weapons impacting health care. These can be found below on this page.

Care in the Crosshairs: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict in 2025

In 2025, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC), using data collected by Insecurity Insight, documents 2,546 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care across 33 countries in 2025, including 790 incidents where hospitals were damaged or destroyed and 455 health workers killed. International humanitarian law prohibits attacks on health care, a commitment all 15 UN Security Council members reaffirmed when they unanimously adopted Resolution 2286 ten years ago. Yet perpetrators are rarely held to account, even as some hospitals and health workers continue to be strategically targeted.The report includes detailed profiles of 21 countries and territories where many acts of violence against health care took place across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe and the Americas.

Quick Links

2025 Report

2025 SHCC Methodology

Security Risk Management for Health Care Handbook

Security Measures Against Drone Strikes

Global Health Map

Datasets

Ukraine Health Attacks Map

Annual SHCC Reports (EN)

Year in Review (AR)

SHCC Year in Review (FR)

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Security Measures Against Drone Strikes: Guidance for the Protection of Aid Workers and Aid Operations

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Social Media Monitoring

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Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC)

Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC)

The SHCC is made up of 40 health provider organizations, humanitarian groups, human rights organizations, NGOs, and academic programs to take action to protect health workers and end attacks against them.

The coalition promotes the security of health workers and services threatened by war or civil unrest; strengthen universal norms of respect for the right to health; demand accountability for perpetrators; and empower providers and civil society groups to be champions for their right to health.