Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1.4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, according to this latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report summarizes …
PUNE: Some 40 years ago, a child suffering from diarrhoea at Jamkhed village of Ahmednagar district would have had little chance of survival. Not anymore. Sofiya Pathan, 65, never studied beyond Class IV, but she can save a child's life. Lilabai Amte, 65, too did not get much of an …
Two million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several feet of water, the country's disaster authority said Thursday. More than 350 people have been killed and over eight million people have been affected this year by floods that officials say are worse …
A team of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, has provided its assistance to famine-hit Somalia people to fight cholera. On September 11, the ICDDR,B emergency cholera response team travelled from their base in Nairobi to Somalia’s beleaguered capital Mogadishu to …
The United Nations on Sunday launched an appeal to raise 356 million dollars under its Rapid Response Plan 2011, which will be spent initially on 91 projects in the flood affected areas of Sindh and Balochistan, due to heavy monsoon rains. The Rapid Response Plan 2011 was launched here at …
The number of young children who die each day has plunged over the past two decades, new United Nations figures show, but the world is still lagging far behind in efforts to achieve its target for reducing child mortality. Child mortality rates are dropping in every region of the world, …
A recent Reuters report from London says, international donors led by billionaire Bill Gates pledged $4.3 billion to buy vaccines to protect children in poor countries against potential killers such as diarrhoeal diseases and pneumonia. The funding should allow more than 250 million of world's poorest children to be vaccinated …
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, will provide its help to famine-hit people to fight cholera in Somalia. A expert-team from ICDDR,B reached Kenya on September 1 to assist the international community in managing cholera outbreak in neighbouring Somalia. Initially based …
Aimed at helping the famine-hit people of Somalia fight cholera, a team of experts from International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) reached neighbouring Kenya on September 1. Initially based in northern Kenya, the team hopes to travel to Mogadishu later this week, said a press release from ICDDR,B, …
People living in developing countries including India have the highest burden of bacterial infections, including antibiotic-resistant infections driven by excessive and inappropriate antibiotic consumption. Also, antibiotic resistance or a bacteria's ability to survive antibiotic treatment is highly prevalent in developing countries of South Asia and Africa, according to the Global …
Cholera outbreaks seem to be on the increase, but a new study has found they cannot be explained by global warming. A bigger factor may be the cycle of droughts and floods along big rivers, according to Tufts University scientists who published a study in The American Journal of Tropical …
An international study has come up with compelling evidence that vitamin A supplements is associated with large reductions in mortality, morbidity and vision problems, including night blindness, in children between six months and five years. The inexpensive supplements with few side-effects were found to bring about particular benefits in reducing …
The makeshift camps hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs) of flood-affected areas of Thatta and Badin-the two hardest hit districts in the recently floods-have now been hit by the waterborne diseases and allergies due to contaminated water and unhygienic conditions. Both the districts have depicted a picture of a complete misery …
About 50 people were hospitalised late on Tuesday night after they fell unconscious after drinking highly contaminated water supplied by the town`s water supply agency. The ponds from where the town is supplied water have been filled with rainwater, which has flowed into the ponds from rain-affected areas. The water`s …
A cholera pandemic that has swept poor countries in three waves over nearly four decades has been traced to a bacterial strain that first emerged in Bangladesh, scientists reported on Wednesday. The current pandemic is the seventh since cholera, a water- and food-borne diarrhoeal disease caused by the Vibrio cholerae …
Heavy rain during the last couple of weeks triggered flash flood in Khulna, Satkhira and Jessore districts, marooning at least seven lakh people. Flood has damaged over 200 educational institutions, aman plants, seedbeds and vegetables on over one lakh acres of land and washed away several thousand shrimp enclosures in …
At least 922 dengue patients haveso far been admitted to different private and public hospitals in the capitalwith an indication of rise in number in comparison to the same time of lastyear when the figure was 183. Control Room sources from the office of theDirector General of Health said this …
Four persons of a single village have died due to diarrhea and viral fever spread since last one month in Sirdibas VDC in north Gorkha. Over a 100 others are taken ill. Those killed due to the diseases are Anis Gurung, 17, Devin Gurung, 42, Sundari Gurung, 46, and Bina …
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by …
The World Health Organisation has issued guidelines to health department to prevent spread of diarrhoea among people in the seven affected districts of the province. “The cases of diarrhoea are being reported from some districts but situation is under control. The people in the affected areas should be educated to …
Environment and Human Health gives a comprehensive review of the related literature in order to aid understanding of the (missing) link between the environment and health. Given the exhaustive literature on the subject the paper focuses on the water‐related and land‐related diseases namely in the fast growing and poor countries. …
