2.1 Billion Lack Safe Water Access: WHO Report
Rabat – A report by WHO and UNICEF shows that 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home and 4.5 billion lack safely managed sanitation. While billions of people have gained access to drinking
Rabat – A report by WHO and UNICEF shows that 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home and 4.5 billion lack safely managed sanitation. While billions of people have gained access to drinking
Shamvhura-The beneficiary communities of the Shamvhura-Shamangorwa water project in Ndiyona Constituency in Kavango East are seriously concerned about the groundwater being piped to their villages for
Khartoum- (Haffiya Elyas) Federal Ministry of Health has announced yesterday a huge ebbing in cases of watery diarrhea in all the States, particularly in the White Nile State. Federal Minister of Health,
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for funds to help provide clean water and sanitation to vulnerable communities. Yemen is in the grip of the world's worst outbreak of cholera, but diarrhea
COALITION of Civil Society Organisations under the aegis, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PSN-PACFaH) has raised alarm over rising cases of diarrhoea
Pune: With the number of swine flu cases increasing across Maharashtra, the state health machinery has turned to the old treatment protocol. State health minister Deepak Sawant announced on Thursday
Khartoum - Suspected acute diarrhoea has killed 38 Sudanese in the past month and 317 since August 2016, the UN said on Wednesday, warning the outbreak could worsen ahead of the rainy season. The UN
Along with the rest of the parts of the State, the Diarrhoea Control Fortnight, 2017, was formally launched in the district on June 12. Under the scheme, ORS packets will be distributed to 1.30 lakh children
Anganwadi workers to distribute ORS packets Udupi CMC president Meenakshi Madhav appealed to the public to maintain cleanliness in and around their surroundings. After inaugurating ‘Intensified Diarrhoea
Khartoum - At least 279 people have died and thousands sickened in Sudan from suspected acute diarrhoea since August, UN agencies said on Monday, raising health concerns in the country ahead of the rainy
Khartoum — The Council of Ministers chaired by the First Vice - President and National Prime Minister, Lt. Gen. Bakri Hassan Sali, heard Thursday a report on the phenomenon on watery diarrhea presented
Nearly 16,000 young children die every day around the world, says researcher Sue Grady, citing U.N. figures. The Michigan State University medical geographer says newborns account for about half of the
Thousands of survivors of devastating floods and landslides in Sri Lanka are at risk of potentially fatal diseases such as dengue fever, charities warned on Monday as the death toll from the disaster continued
Almost 100 percent water used by the slum people in Dhaka faces faecal contamination, which causes various diarrhoeal diseases and consequently, malnutrition, mostly to children, says a new study. The
The Nairobi county has activated cholera treatment centres following an outbreak of the disease in the city. Health executive Bernard Muia and chief officer Sam Ochola yesterday said five cases of the
Nairobi was on Thursday evening on high alert after three people who all met and ate at a wedding in Karen on Saturday died of cholera. Five others including a foreigner are admitted to various hospitals
African governments and their development partners should invest in new home-grown initiatives to reduce high death rates among the continent's youth from preventable causes, the World Health Organisation
Thika — A slaughterhouse in Makongeni, Thika has been shut down after six people were admitted at Thika level 5 Hospital following an anthrax outbreak suspected to have emanated from the abattoir. Kiambu
Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi have agreed to collaborate in fighting malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, amid revelations that 949 people have died of the disease since the beginning of this year in the
A three-year drought has left more than half a million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid in Somaliland. More than 100,000 people have left their homes in search of food. The lack of clean