Today is World Water Day from Africa to Nepal, Bangladesh, Madagascar and Mali to the Great Lakes Axis of Logic Source: Al Jazeera | The International Year of Water Cooperation | Restore Our Water International aims to make a global issue local | World Water Day is held annually on March 23rd as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of fres...
Poor waste management to blame for many ills: Experts The Times Of India PATNA: The state health department may be organizing a series of programmes to highlight its achievements to mark the world health day on Sunday but experts say poor waste management in the state capital was negating the effect of all preventive meas...
School Health Clubs Flourish All Africa [The Herald]THE last three years had devastating effects on the Binga community that had to grapple with the outbreak of diarrhoeal diseases like cholera. ...
Analysis: Roots of polio vaccine suspicion IRINnews Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTREADER MODE | KANO, 4 April 2013 (IRIN) - For years, polio vaccination has faced strong resistance among conservative Islamic communities in northern Nigerian communities, largely due to a deep distrust of the West, persi...
Drought-affected areas face threat of water-borne diseases The Times Of India AURANGABAD: Due to shortage of potable water, many in drought-affected areas have been compelled to drink unhealthy water, leading to diseases like diarrhoea, cholera and malaria. "Moreover, spread of malaria, dengue fever, cholera and meningitis is ...
Haiti's Inconvenient Truth Foreign Policy When a major earthquake clobbered Haiti in January 2010, a shift in how international officials talked about solving the country's ills was already under way. Starting with then-U.N. special envoy, Bill Clinton, the word "aid" had fallen fr...
Poor sanitation: A stain on our pride Graphic Share | Twitter | Ghana News plugins | View Comments | If there is any challenge that has exposed this country as if those who are in charge are incapable of solving serious problems, it is the poor sanitation situation we have on hand. | For many ye...
Zinc tabs and ORS: Treatment for diarrhea highly successful Joy Online The introduction of a better and more effective way of treating child diarrhea using ORS and ZINC tablets has drastically helped in reducing mortality rate in children under the age of five years due to diarrhea. | The drastic decrease in mortality c...
Departing UN Official Blasts Haiti's Rights Record Huffington Post PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The former United Nations human rights monitor in Haiti is taking a swipe at the Caribbean nation's legal system as he leaves his post. | In an open letter that was sent to the Haitian press and obtained by The Associate...
Six fresh cholera cases reported The Times Of India MYSORE: As people try to beat the heat with ice creams and fruit juices, they are exposing themselves to the risk of cholera. The district has recorded six fresh cases of the disease. | According to information provided by the health department, two ...
NYC's sugary drinks legislation: Bloomberg's still pushing The Examiner Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda I. Gibbs and Health Commissioner Thomas A. Farley filed amicus (friend of the court) legal briefs to support the City’s appeal of the recent lower court denial of the sugary ...
