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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Regional disparities in the burden of disease attributable to unsafe water and poor sanitation in China
The objective of the study was to estimate the disease burden attributable to unsafe water and poor sanitation and hygiene in China, to identify high-burden groups and to inform improvement measures.
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Addressing the shortfall
2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services. The Joint Monitoring Programme between
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WHO Technical Working Group on creation of an oral cholera vaccine stockpile
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine
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Saving lives with community-led total sanitation
Without water people cannot survive, but without good sanitation and hygiene practices the water available could become contaminated and lead to disease and death. Every year 1.5 million people, most of
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Challenges to changing health behaviours in developing countries: A critical overview
This overview of recent research on health behaviour change in developing countries shows progress as well as pitfalls. In order to provide guidance to health and social scientists seeking to change common
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Cholera epidemic looms large in Doti
DIPAYAL: With authorities failing to contain the spread of large number of diarrhoea cases in Doti since mid-June, health workers today confirmed the spread to cholera saying it might soon become an epidemic
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Emerging Vibrio risk at high latitudes in response to ocean warming
There is increasing concern regarding the role of climate change in driving bacterial waterborne infectious diseases. Here we illustrate associations between environmental changes observed in the Baltic
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Gastro takes fatal form in Patiala, 3 dead
125 under treatment, Residents protest MC ‘laxity’, Deaths not due to the disease, claims Civil Surgeon Patiala: Gastroenteritis has taken a fatal form in a Patiala colony. Three persons have already
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Admin completes work on 5 water supply schemes
In order to ensure provision of potable water and protect the tribal communities from waterborne diseases, the political administration has completed five drinking water schemes in various villages of
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Faecal germ in water to 90% rural homes
A study by international institutes, led by the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Duke Global Health Institute, has found that the drinking water of nearly 90 per cent of households in rural Andhra