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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Over 13,000 cases of monsoon-related ailments reported in city this yr’
MUMBAI: There were over 13,000 cases of monsoon-related diseases in Mumbai, with around 20 deaths, most of them due to leptospirosis, the BMC informed the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. These include dengue,
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Have we substantially underestimated the impact of improved sanitation coverage on child health? A generalized additive model panel analysis of global data on child mortality and malnutrition
<p>Although widely accepted as being one of the most important public health advances of the past hundred years, the contribution that improving sanitation coverage can make to child health is still unclear,
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Kenya: Disease Fears As Kirinyaga Towns Hit By Water Shortage
An acute shortage of water has hit three major towns in Kirinyaga County, raising fears of disease. Kerugoya, Kutus and Ngurubani residents said they have to fetch cooking and drinking water from the
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Disease panel chief wants two joint directors of health in Pune
With the state battling over 4,500 cases of dengue, joint director of health services Dr Kanchan Jagtap is at the helm of affairs and is handling both vector-borne and water-borne diseases, along with
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Real-time projections of cholera outbreaks through data assimilation and rainfall forecasting
<p>Although treatment for cholera is well-known and cheap, outbreaks in epidemic regions still exact high death tolls mostly due to the unpreparedness of health care infrastructures to face unforeseen
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No data-led changes in Swachh Bharat: CSE
Prime Minister Narendra ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi There has been a huge political and financial investment on the Swachh Bharat Mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The programme, however,
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Major shift of toxigenic V. cholerae O1 from Ogawa to Inaba serotype isolated from clinical and environmental samples in Haiti
<p>In October of 2010, an outbreak of cholera was confirmed in Haiti for the first time in more than a century. A single clone of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor serotype Ogawa strain was implicated
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Sheopur district tribals forced to consume contaminated water
Children from Sheopur collecting water.Children from Sheopur collecting water. Bhopal: In the eye of storm for malnourishment deaths, Sheopur district's large number of malnourished children and their
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After getting past deadly cholera bout, Central Africa Republic now logs 10 monkeypox deaths
BANGUI – At least 10 people have died in an outbreak of monkeypox in western Central African Republic, a country already hit by cholera, the health ministry announced Wednesday. “We have logged 10 deaths
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Disease outbreak kills 19 in rain-hit Sudan – minister
Khartoum - An outbreak of water-borne disease has killed at least 19 people and sickened scores more in Sudan's rain-ravaged states of Blue Nile and Kasala, a minister said Monday. Since June, heavy rain