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 …
Eleven people died of diarrhoea countrywide in the last week of November, the Ministry of Health and Child Care has said. This brings the total number of people who have died of diarrhoea so far this year to 460 out of the 479 147 cases reported. According to the ministry's …
MUMBAI: WHO's first ever report on the estimated burden of foodborne disease shows that over 150 million people fall sick and 175000 die every year after consuming contaminated food in the south-east Asia region. Three in ten under-5 children suffer from diarrhoea, which continues to be a major killer. The …
The report presents the first global and regional estimates of the burden of foodborne diseases. The large disease burden from food highlights the importance of food safety, particularly in Africa, South-East Asia and other regions. Despite the data gaps and limitations of these initial estimates, it is apparent that the …
Paediatricians say more than half of under-five child deaths are due to diseases that are preventable Pneumonia is now the second leading cause of death (15 per cent) among under-five children with birth asphyxia third (11 per cent) and diarrhoea fourth place (9 per cent) followed by malaria (7 per …
The federal government has lamented loss of N455 billion annually to poor sanitation saying it is equivalent to 1.3 per cent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP). Permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Rabi Jimeta disclosed this yesterday at a national stakeholders' consultative workshop on draft hygiene …
More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, UNICEF said Tuesday. Of the 530 million children in the flood-prone zones, some 300 million live in countries …
Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF’s representative said, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem. Of those two million, nearly 5,50,000 children have life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, with many of those affected living in the underdeveloped east and conflict-hit …
Poor sanitation and open defecation, which continue to be the bane of the Ghanaian society, has robbed the nation of over 4,500 of its youth through the outbreak of diarrhoea in 2014 alone. According to a report by the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), an additional 247 people died …
"It is estimated that only one in three families (34 per cent) in Tanzania has access to improved toilets with wide disparities between regions, across urban and rural areas," according to a report from The United Nations Children's Fund, USAID and the World Health Organization (WHO). The report issued also …
The Director of the Maputo City Directorate of Health, Sheila Cuco has confirmed the death of eighteen people in the capital as the latest victims of diarrheal diseases between January and September this year, APA learnt Sunday. Dr Cuco said that this represents a 100 percent increase compared to the …
Groundwater pollution in Aravalis caused by tonnes of untreated waste lying near defunct Bandhwari waste treatment plant is leading to diseases like skin lesions, bloody diarrhoea and dermatitis among people from neighbouring villages. Meenu, a 7-year-old boy from Bandhwari village and Raju, a 23-year-old man from Dera village, have developed …
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Water, Forestry and Wildlife, UNICEF and Department of Community Development, recently held a day-long sensitisation programme on the elimination of open defecation for Central River Region Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) members in Janjangbureh. The …
People in Uganda are living longer due largely to a drop in deaths and illnesses caused by HIV/Aids and malaria, a new analysis of 306 diseases and injuries in 188 countries suggests. The study, published by The Lancet last month, was conducted by an international consortium of researchers led by …
At least eight people died from more than 10,000 diarrhoea cases recorded in Zimbabwe during the past week, the Ministry of Health revealed Sunday.The ministry said in a report that 10,619 cases of diarrhoea and typhoid were recorded around the country during the past week. Manicaland and Mashonaland West (1,515) …
‘India spends less of its GDP on health than some of the world’s poorest countries’ Every government hospital serves an estimated 61,000 people in India, with one bed for every 1833 people, new official data shows. In undivided Andhra Pradesh, every government hospital serves over 3 lakh patients while in …
Twenty two people have fallen prey to the water borne disease ‘diarrhea’ in various parts of the tehsil. As per reports, 22 persons have fallen ill due to diarrhea in various parts of tehsil Bhaderwah. Contaminated water is believed to be the reason behind the outbreak. Most of the cases …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned member nations against the return to pre-antibiotic era on account of excessive and indiscriminate use of life-saving medicines and their over-the-counter sales. The concern was expressed this week at the South East Asia Region meeting of the WHO at Dili, capital of Timor-Leste …
Arsenic has been linked to disrupted immune function and greater infection susceptibility in highly exposed populations. Well arsenic levels above the EPA limit occur in our U.S. study area and are of particular concern for pregnant women and infants. The researchers investigated whether in utero arsenic exposure affects the risk …
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that can cause diarrhoea. Human faeces are an important source of Cryptosporidium in surface waters. We present a model to study the impact of sanitation, urbanization and population growth on human emissions of Cryptosporidium to surface waters. We build on a global model by Hofstra …
HYDERABAD: Extreme weather patterns due to climate change is likely see a spike in number of diarrheal as well as vector-borne diseases like Chikungunya, dengue and malaria, warned scientists and health experts at a workshop on 'impact of climate change on emergence of new diseases' in the city on Thursday. …
