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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30 Cholera-related cases, 13 deaths reported in Jonglei
A state hospital official said primary tests conducted in its laboratory have shown the disease could be Cholera. The sample was sent to Juba for further specialized testing to confirm the disease before
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Hepatitis E outbreak kills 11 in Chad, threatens hundreds more- charity
DAKAR, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak which has killed 11 people since September, medical charity
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Nigeria: 240,000 Nigerian Children Die Annually From Diarrhoea- USAID
Makurdi — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has said that at least 240,000 Nigerian children die every year from diarrhoea related illness, one of the commonest childhood killer
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Oral cholera vaccine coverage during an outbreak and humanitarian crisis, Iraq, 2015
<p>During November–December 2015, as part of the 2015 cholera outbreak response in Iraq, the Iraqi Ministry of Health targeted ≈255,000 displaced persons >1 year of age with 2 doses of oral
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Waterborne diseases claim 30 lives; affect over 6,000
Pune: Water borne diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid and viral hepatitis affected as many as 6,012 people in the state while claiming 30 lives in 2016, against the 5,175 cases and seven deaths recorded
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Japanese encephalitis cases rise in Tamil Nadu
CHENNAI: The mosquito menace is acute and, apart from dengue-causing aedes and malaria-causing anopheles, public health experts are worried about the 'culex' which causes Japanese encephalitis (JE).
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Sudan: Ten People Die of Acute Diarrhoea in Sudan's El Gezira
Wad Medani — Ten people died of acute watery diarrhoea in a hospital in El Gezira state on Sunday and Monday. The hospital has received dozens of infected cases. A medical source said that the emergency
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Tanzania: Mwanza Residents Warned of Possible Outbreak of Cholera
Mwanza — Health authorities have warned residents of the possible spread of cholera in the region. The warning has been issued following reports that some neighbouring regions have reported cholera
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Biomarkers of environmental enteropathy are positively associated with immune responses to an oral cholera vaccine in Bangladeshi children
<p>Environmental enteropathy (EE) is a poorly understood condition that refers to chronic alterations in intestinal permeability, absorption, and inflammation, which mainly affects young children in resource-limited
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Guinea Worm (Dracunculus medinensis) Infection in a wild-caught frog, Chad
A third-stage (infective) larva of Dracunculus medinensis, the causative agent of Guinea worm disease, was recovered from a wild-caught Phrynobatrachus francisci frog in Chad. Although green frogs (Lithobates