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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Zimbabwe: Suspected Cholera Cases Hit 24
The water and sanitation situation in Chitungwiza's St Mary's suburb remains critical as cases of suspected cholera increased to 24 in Harare and Chitungwiza over the past week. A snap survey of the
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More than 500 samples of water found unfit: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
AHMEDABAD: As the summer has set in, civic authorities have intensified their efforts towards curbing the spread of waterborne infections. According to the testing conducted by the health department officials
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Floods ransack 300 households in Karonga
Raging floods have rendered over 300 households destitute in Karonga district amidst fears of a recurring Cholera outbreak. District Commissioner (DC) Richard Hara disclosed that one boy from Mwagomba
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13 die of Cholera in Yobe
A cholera outbreak in Gashua, Yobe State has claimed 13 lives out of 160 cases reported in the last six days, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A source at the Gashua General Hospital told NAN
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Zambia withdraws military personnel deployed to fight cholera
Zambia has withdrawn military personnel deployed in December to help clean up the capital and other cities at the height of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 80 people in seven months, the government
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Hundreds affected by pollution in Iraq's Salahudin province
Hundreds of people suffer from diarrhea and colic admitted to hospitals during the past two days in Iraq's central province of Salahudin due to contamination of drinking water, medical sources said on
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The associations between water and sanitation and hookworm infection using cross-sectional data from Togo's national deworming program
<p>Sustainable control of soil-transmitted helminths requires a combination of chemotherapy treatment and environmental interventions, including access to safe drinking water, sufficient water for hygiene,
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India’s neglected tropical diseases
<p>The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is generating important and often nonintuitive information about the prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality of the world’s major communicable
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Waterborne diseases spike, 630 cases in March: Health Department of AMC
As many as 639 cases of waterborne diseases have been reported till March 17, according to the Health Department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. The information was revealed in a press note issued
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Assessment of fluoride in groundwater and urine, and prevalence of fluorosis among school children in Haryana, India
<p>Considering the health effects of fluoride, the present study was undertaken to assess the concentration of fluoride in groundwater, and urine of school children in Bass region of Haryana state.</p>