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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Assessing the health impact of water quality interventions in low-income settings: Concerns associated with blinded trials and the need for objective outcomes
<p>A dramatic disparity between the results of blinded versus open trial designs has raised questions about the effectiveness of water quality interventions and other environmental interventions to prevent
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Zimbabwe: Diarrhoea Claims 11
Eleven people died of diarrhoea countrywide in the last week of November, the Ministry of Health and Child Care has said. This brings the total number of people who have died of diarrhoea so far this year
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CSE’s inaugural State of India’s Health report connects most environmental factors to some of the gravest public health risks faced by India today
A number of public health catastrophes – arising largely out of environmental reasons -- are staring the people of India in the face. While the debate over polluted air and how to control it rages on in
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Water-Borne Diseases, 04/12/2015
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Water-Borne Diseases, 04/12/2015. Consumption of contaminated drinking water can cause diseases such as Cholera, Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases, Enteric Fever (Typhoid), Viral
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Dirty purifiers spreading waterborne infections
Hyderabad: Replacement of water filters is of prime importance as contaminants get stuck to the pores of the filter restricting the cleaning process. The filters are found filled with small minute metal
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Environmental transmission of typhoid fever in an urban slum
<p>Enteric fever due to Salmonella Typhi (typhoid fever) occurs in urban areas with poor sanitation. While direct fecal-oral transmission is thought to be the predominant mode of transmission, recent evidence
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Molecular epidemiology of Amoebiasis: A cross-sectional study among North East Indian population
<p>Epidemiological studies carried out using culture or microscopy in most of the amoebiasis endemic developing countries, yielded confusing results since none of these could differentiate the pathogenic
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The interaction of deworming, improved sanitation, and household flooring with soil-transmitted Helminth infection in rural Bangladesh
<p>The combination of deworming and improved sanitation or hygiene may result in greater reductions in soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection than any single intervention on its own. We measured STH
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Kenya: Cholera Kills Two in Mombasa, Seven Taken Ill
Two people have died and seven hospitalised following a cholera outbreak in Mwakirunge, Mombasa county. One victim was buried last Saturday and the other on Tuesday. Three people were treated in
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Cholera outbreak lurks along Lake Tanganyika
Nkasi District Commissioner (DC), Mr Iddy Hassan Kimanta, told the ‘Daily News’ over the phone on his way to Kirando village along the shores of Lake Tanganyika from Namanyere Town. Reports from Kirando