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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Kozhikode on alert against rat fever
District Medical Officer P. K. Mohanan has informed that a lot of cases of Rat Fever were reported from various parts of Kozhikode district even though the cases are not concentrated in any one place.
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Diarrhoea outbreak in Kushtia worsens
The prevailing one-week-long diarrhoea outbreak has turned into a matter of great concern as the situation was deteriorating continuously, leaving an apprehension going the state out of control. While
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The effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on defecation behaviors and child health in rural Madhya Pradesh: A cluster randomized controlled trial
<p>Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation
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Epidemiology of intestinal polyparasitism among Orang Asli school children in rural Malaysia
This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the current prevalence and risk factors associated with intestinal polyparasitism (the concurrent infection with multiple intestinal parasite species) among
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Diarrhea outbreak hits Bhimdutta Municipality
Kanchanpur Aug 7: Locals of Bhimdutta Municipality have been affected by an outbreak of diarrhea in their locality. The cause behind the outbreak of the disease are consumption of stale food, drinking
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Three die, 34 hospitalised in Plateau cholera outbreak
FEAR of epidemic is sweeping through Gumbur in Wase local council of Plateau State, three persons have died while 34 others are currently hospitalized following a cholera outbreak in the area on Sunday,
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Cholera kills five in Borno displaced persons’ camp
THE over 3, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the Government Girls Secondary School resettlement camp at Biu, Borno State, risk losing their lives to cholera, which has already killed five persons
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Climate Change: US East Coast Hit Hardest By 'Nuisance Flooding' Amid Sea Level Rise From Climate Change, NOAA Scientists Say
The U.S. East Coast is bearing the brunt of the rise in “nuisance flooding” – minor events that shut down roads and clog storm drains but aren’t particularly dangerous. Such floods have increased by more
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IDCF 2014 - Intensified Diarrhoea Control
IDCF 2014 Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight 28 July – 8 August 2014. Operational Plan for states, UTs and districts.
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No end to water contamination in city localities
Three deaths in a day at Parkash Nagar raise questions over MC, Health Dept’s arrangements Water contamination continues to haunt people residing in some localities of the city. Every summer, the same