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's cholera outbreak kills 51 people in two weeks-WHO
A cholera outbreak in Yemen has killed 51 people since April 27, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, more than double the toll of 25 reported three days ago. WHO said there are 2,752 suspected
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IOM responds as cholera outbreak spreads in South Sudan
The IOM team has been supporting local health partners to rapidly scale up the emergency and contain the outbreak in a hard-to-reach and often insecure area of the country. Relief agencies have responded
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Zimbabwe: Health Disaster Looms At Chikuti
A health disaster is looming at the informal Chikuti settlement where thousands of people are living without proper sanitation facilities. People in the area, which falls on the border of Makonde and
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National Health Profile 2016
The biggest challenge for India is the dual fight of containing a 'developing' country's health concerns while a flare-up of 'developed' world disorders are its doorstep. On one hald India is combating
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Sudan: 'Watery Diarrhoea' Hits Hundreds in Sudan's White Nile State
Um Jar — Hundreds of people in the area of Um Jar in White Nile State are reportedly suffering from 'watery diarrhoea'. Mohamed Idris, Coordinator at the Um Jar Health Centre told Radio Dabanga that
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Over 500 cases of waterborne infections reported in city
Ahmedabad: Cases of waterborne diseases appear to be on the rise in Ahmedabad. The weekly health report by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), revealed that till Saturday this April, 514 cases of waterborne
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Sudan: Cholera Patient Dies, 42 New Cases in Eastern Sudan
El Gedaref — Another cholera patient died in El Gedaref on Saturday. 42 new cases were recorded in various parts of the eastern Sudanese state. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a medical source reported that
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Effectiveness of a live oral human rotavirus vaccine after programmatic introduction in Bangladesh: A cluster-randomized trial
<p>Rotavirus vaccines are now globally recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), but in early 2009 WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization reviewed available data and
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Three die of cholera in Ganjam district of Odisha
Consumed ‘contaminated’ drink during festival; 76 more undergoing treatment Consumption of contaminated ‘pana’, the ritualistic drink related to ‘Dandanata’ festival, has led to an outbreak of cholera
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Hyderabad: Dirty street drinks give Cholera
The researchers studied over 200 cases in different parts of India of which 20 cases where studied in Hyderabad. Hyderabad: With 36 cases of cholera recorded in 2016 in Hyderabad city limits, health