thank you very much for having me on mariam and like you just shown the international rescue committee is very concerned about these individuals who are so vulnerable one of our key concerns is that these individuals have faced displacement already according to an international rescue committee survey that was conducted these individuals have already been displaced 5 sometimes 10 times and so their needs are incredibly great they're also living in tents many of them they don't have access to clean water and so we're also concerned that when these individuals are forced to flee to the turkish border that we like so many other humanitarian organizations won't be able to meet those needs we are definitely stretched already in terms of our capacity and what we're able to give to these individuals who are coming with so many needs and so many concerns and on top of that mariam one of the key issues that we've faced is the targeting of humanitarian workers just last week our i.r.c. supported hosp. supported ambulance that was run by sams was targeted by an air strike and we lost 3 humanitari

according to rapid assessment by the international rescue committee from march 2019, which is respondingy to the outbreak, pre-existing gender norms expose women and girls to specific increased risks during disease outbreaks. during the current outbreak of ebola in north kivu in the drc cofactors have seen similar pattern to that they saw in west africa in 2014 with infection rates for women and girls fluctuating between 57 and 62 percent. in addition, the irc found that women and girls carry primary responsibility for caring for the sick and managing household prevention and this means that women and girls and particularly adolescent girls must increase the number of times they travel long distances by foot each day to stretch water. this results in elevated risk of sexual violence and harassment. here are my questions. admiral ziemer, what's being done to ensure that women and girls have access to services both help but also sexual and gender-based violence related during the outbreak, if you can comment on that? >> thanks for the question. i can say clearly that the intervention in th