2024 water funding gap report
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Waterborne diseases
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Yemen and East Africa: Preventable cholera claiming lives at an alarming rate
So far, the deadly disease has hit about 300,000 people in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and other countries. “Conflict in Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan has ruined health sectors and public water and
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Aid workers warn of 'devastating' cholera outbreak in South Sudan
Doctors, aid workers and officials in South Sudan are warning of a “devastating” outbreak of cholera that could kill thousands of people in a country where millions are already threatened by famine.
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Yemen's cholera death toll rises to 1,500- WHO
The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Yemen has risen to 1,500, Nevio Zagaria, the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Yemen, said on Saturday, and appealed for more help to put
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Yemen's cholera outbreak keeps spreading at alarming pace
By the end of May, over 65,000 suspected cases of cholera and at least 532 deaths have been reported. The situation is overwhelming for what remains of Yemen's conflict-battered health system. Highlights
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Cholera kills over 60 in South Sudan
A cholera outbreak in South Sudan’s Namurunynag State in Eastern Equatoria has killed more than 60 people in one month, local Governor Louse Lobong Lojore said. Mr Lojore said the death toll could be
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Suspected diarrhoea kills 38 Sudanese in one month: UN
Khartoum - Suspected acute diarrhoea has killed 38 Sudanese in the past month and 317 since August 2016, the UN said on Wednesday, warning the outbreak could worsen ahead of the rainy season. The UN
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Experts find new strain of cholera that spreads faster
The new strain does not lead to sporadic cases, but attacks groups of people, which is why it is stated to be virulent. Hyderabad: Forty-five strains of ‘vibrio’ cholera were isolated from 10 different
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Task force to probe cholera outbreak at Weston Hotel
Nairobi county health officers yesterday failed to release results of an investigation into an incident in which 50 people last week contracted cholera at Weston Hotel. Instead, it formed a task force
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WHO hopes Yemeni cholera outbreak is half done at 218,000 cases
A major cholera outbreak in Yemen may have reached the halfway mark at 218,798 cases as a massive emergency response has begun to curb its spread two months into the epidemic, the World Health Organization
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Sudan: 'Cholera in Sudan's El Gedaref Requires Urgent Intervention'
El Gedaref / Khartoum / El Tadamon / Tawila — A cholera patient died and more than 60 new cases were reported in El Gedaref on Saturday. In Khartoum North, new cases were recorded as well. The World Health