UNICEF launches record $2.2 billion aid appeal to help children in emergencies United Nations Print | 21 February 2014 – The United Nations today launched a $2.2 billion appeal to help nearly 60 children in crisis situations, the majority of whom are in and around war-torn Syria. | The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ‘Humanitarian Action for Children 2014’ is the largest em...
Sick cities: why urban life is breeding new illness fears The Guardian "The whole history of urban life, in a sense," says Richard Barnett, "is of living with parasites and trying to get rid of them." We are at the end of a rainlashed walk through London, one of a series of health and disease tours run by Barnett, a his...
Sick cities: how urban life is shaped by dirt, death and a new breed of diseases The Guardian Plague and cholera helped create the modern city. Now health experts must tackle the threat of drug-resistant infections | Tipping bodies from a cart into a communal grave in London during the great plague. Photograph: Engraving by J Franklin, c1665 ...
140,000 people to get cholera vaccine New Straits/Business Times GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is working with the South Sudan Government and partners to provide vaccines to protect nearly 140,000 people living in temporary camps in South Sudan against cholera, Iran's IRNA reported. | According to IR...
Gov’t Must Rethink Prepaid Metering For Water – Boniface Peace FM Online A Former Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Abubakar Saddique Boniface, has rekindled the debate on whether or not it was time for Ghana to introduce prepaid metering in the water sector. | The proposal which the Ghana Water Company hop...
Capacity of private plants too low to treat Thane sewage The Times Of India THANE: Several prominent housing societies, commercial complexes, malls and hospitals are discharging untreated sewage into city's underbelly, posing a grave health hazard to lakhs of citizens. | A recent survey by the Thane Municipal Corporation has...
Scientists develop method to predict epidemics The Siasat Daily Berlin, February 23: | A risk map using environmental and health data can predict epidemics, scientists say. | The environment has an impact on our health. Preventing epidemics relies on activating the right counter-measures, and scientists are now t...
'Water 4.0,' by David Sedlak San Francisco Chronicle Water 4.0 | The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource | By David Sedlak | (Yale University Press; 332 pages; $28.50) | With the turn of a tap, clean water flows out. With the flush of a toilet, waste travels to a plant for trea...
UNICEF launches record $2.2 billion aid appeal to help children in emergencies United Nations Print | 21 February 2014 – The United Nations today launched a $2.2 billion appeal to help nearly 60 children in crisis situations, the majority of whom are in and around war-torn Syria. | The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ‘Humanitarian...
UNICEF Launches Record $2.2 Billion Emergency Appeal Voa News Lisa Schlein | GENEVA — The U.N. Children’s Fund is announcing a record $2.2 billion appeal to provide emergency assistance this year for 85 million people, including 59 million children in 50 countries. While almost 40 percent of...
Scientists discover malaria 'master switch' The Hindu Solving “a long-standing mystery in malaria biology” is how researchers at the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge describe their recent breakthrough in malaria research. | The research group, led by Dr. Oliver Billker from the Sanger Institute and Dr. Andy Waters from Welcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology at the Unive...
