Zimbabwe: Cholera Outbreak Response Underway in Buhera - Health Minister
[263Chat] Health and Child Care Minister, Dr. Douglas Mombeshora says the Government has put in measures to combat a new cholera outbreak that has been reported in Manicaland's Buhera district. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
UN says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan as conflict grinds on
The U.N. health agency says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps as deadly fighting grinds on between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Records 210 New Cholera Infections, 10 Deaths
[Premium Times] The report revealed that as of 27 August, Nigeria had recorded 84 suspected deaths, and 2,860 suspected cases across 25 states. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 25, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
El Ni ño Poses a Major Health Risk El Ni ño Poses a Major Health Risk
The weather phenomenon, which is accentuated by climate change, can promote malnutrition, cholera, typhoid fever, and even gender-based violence.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - September 14, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Sudan: Cholera Outbreak and Asylum Struggles Plague Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia
[Dabanga] Addis Ababa -- As a result of the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan, nearly 80,000 people have sought refuge in Ethiopia, where they face a growing cholera outbreak and challenges maintaining their asylum status. Refugees are allegedly denied asylum in the capital, Addis Ababa, and required to return to Matama in the Amhara region near the Sudanese border. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 13, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Conflict, Peace and Security East Africa Ethiopia Governance Health and Medicine Human Rights Refugees and Displacement Sudan Source Type: news
Kenya: MoH Exceeds Ocv Coverage Target With 1.6 Million People Immunized
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The national Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) campaign has reached 1.6 million people, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 4, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Source Type: news
Pandemics Don ’ t Really End —They Echo
The public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic officially ended on May 11, 2023. It was a purely administrative step. Viruses do not answer to government decrees. Reported numbers were declining, but then started coming up again during the summer. By August, hospital admissions climbed to more than 10,000 a week. This was nowhere near the 150,000 weekly admissions recorded at the peak of the pandemic in January 2022.
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The new variant is more contagious. It is not yet clear whether it is more lethal. Nor is it clear whether the recent rise is a mere uptick or for...
Source: TIME: Health - August 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brian Michael Jenkins Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance Source Type: news
Congo-Kinshasa: Conflict Blamed for Worst Cholera Outbreak in Six Years
[RFI] Yaounde -- As violence and displacement worsens in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's children are facing the worst cholera outbreak since 2017. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 28, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Central Africa Conflict, Peace and Security Congo-Kinshasa Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Congo-Kinshasa: Children Facing Worst Cholera Outbreak in Six Years
[UN News] A spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017, warns UNICEF. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 21, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Central Africa Conflict, Peace and Security Congo-Kinshasa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Cholera Outbreak, Malnutrition Crisis Grip Country as Funding Falls Short
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released a report indicating the number of cholera cases in Ethiopia has reached alarming levels. As of 02 August, 2023, there had been over 16,800 reported cases, with 212 deaths. The regions most affected by this outbreak include Oromia, Sidama, and Somali. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 19, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Environment Ethiopia Health and Medicine Nutrition Water and Sanitation Source Type: news
Floods, Now Torrential Monsoon Rains Leave Pakistani Women in Crisis
Women outside an emergency vehicle aimed at helping those affected by flooding. CREDIT: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, PAKISTAN , Aug 18 2023 (IPS) Torrential monsoon rains have left the people, especially women, in crisis as they are still grappling to recover from the last year’s floods in Pakistan.
“We are yet to return to normal lives after devastation caused by severe rains in June 2002 when the new series of rains have started only to further aggravate our problems,” Jannat Bibi, a resident of Kalam in the Swat Valley, told IPS.
Bibi, 44, a housewife, along with co-villagers, must walk about a ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change Development & Aid Environment Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
Sudan: Save the Children Warns of Cholera Outbreak in Sudan Capital
[Dabanga] London -- Thousands of corpses are reported to be decomposing on the streets of Khartoum, with mortuaries at breaking point due to power outages and insufficient capacity to store the bodies, putting families and children at increasing risk of diseases, Save the Children reported yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 11, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Conflict, Peace and Security East Africa Health and Medicine Sudan Source Type: news
Kenya: Ministry of Health Rolls Out Nationwide Cholera Vaccination Campaign to Tackle Outbreak
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health has announced a nationwide Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) campaign targeting eight counties mapped as high risk areas. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 4, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Source Type: news
A New Age of Water is Dawning
We’re living in a pivotal moment in history, on the cusp of either sinking into a dark period of growing poverty, accelerating ecological destruction, and worsening conflict, or moving forward to a new age of equity, sustainability, and stewardship of the only planet in the universe where we know life exists. I believe a positive future is not only possible, but inevitable, but solving our current crises and moving along the path to that desired future will require new, concerted, and sustained efforts.
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Nothing better exemplifies both the threat and the promise facing ...
Source: TIME: Science - August 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Peter H. Gleick Tags: Uncategorized climate change Excerpt freelance Source Type: news
Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy
The World Health Organization says round 7 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Aug 2 2023 (IPS) Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity’s well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Climate change is unquestionably affecting our health every day,” says Vanessa Kerry– a renowned global health expert and medical doctor – who was appointed the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Busani Bafana Tags: Climate Action Climate Change Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
