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
-
Rautahat diarrheal epidemic still out of control
Epidemics of diarrhea and cholera that gripped Chandrapur-2, Gaidatar of the district some two months ago is still out of control. Locals are terrorized after the diseases started spreading to three
-
A city of contaminated water
SIALKOT: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) and the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) have failed to provide potable water to the people of Sialkot city and surrounding areas. Health
-
The river where swimming lessons can be a health hazard
The monsoon is about to come to Varanasi, India's ancient city on the Ganges, putting an end to the daily swimming lessons held in the river after school. The children will miss the cooling water, but
-
Viral fever, typhoid grip Rukum Villages
A 51-year-old woman died while scores of others were taken ill due to typhoid and viral fever in various VDCs in the district in the past two weeks. Him Kumari Pun, a permanent resident of Baphikot-5,
-
Assessing the water, sanitation and hygiene needs of people living with HIV and AIDS in Papua New Guinea
However, comprehensive care and support, treatment and preventative services are improving across PNG, resulting in people living with HIV leading longer and healthier lives. Owing to weakened immune systems,
-
Water contamination high in city: BMC data
Of the 867 water contamination complaints received in the first five months (January to May) of the current year by the BMC, 79 per cent — the highest — has been registered from the city. While the civic
-
Rautahat's cholera epidemic unabated for last 3 months
Floodwater generally triggers waterborne disease like cholera, jaundice, typhoid and several others, but officials with Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) of the Department of Health Services
-
Team science and the creation of a novel rotavirus vaccine in India: a new framework for vaccine development
In The Lancet, findings from Nita Bhandari and colleagues' phase 3 clinical trial1 show the safety and efficacy of the 116E rotavirus vaccine against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in Indian infants.
-
Water-borne diseases take toll on workers in Noida, 30% sick
NOIDA: Nearly 30% of employees in Noida's factories and entrepreneurial outfits have been missing from work this summer. Lack of clean drinking water and dependence on untreated tap water has led to more
-
Diarrhoea spate turns alarming
The hospital authority is struggling to accommodate the staggering number of patients Diarrhoea has broken out alarmingly at nine union parishads in Munshiganj because of scorching heat. According