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...
Drinking Water Restored to Over 183,000 People Ahead of the Rainy Season All Africa [Unicef]Bangui -Just ahead of the onset of the rainy season, which increases the risk of water-borne diseases like cholera, UNICEF and its partners have restored safe and chlorinated drinking water for more than 183,000 displaced people across the Ce...
Increase in Cholera Cases in Nampula All Africa [AIM]Maputo -The health authorities in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula say that on average 10 to 13 people a day, suffering from cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases, are entering the cholera treatment centre in the city. ...
Haitian-American officials to State Department: Don’t intervene in cholera lawsuit The Miami Herald Haitian-American elected officials are asking the U.S. State Department not to side with the United Nations in a legal battle over a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed more than 8,000 and sickened more than 700,000 Haitians. | State Sen...
From Weapons To Fashion, Crimea's Indelible Mark On History National Public Radio For history nerds, it's fascinating to see the word "Crimea" back in the news. The last time this peninsula on the Black Sea dominated world headlines was nearly 160 years ago. (Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met there at ...
Senior UN official calls for Haiti cholera compensation BBC News A senior United Nations official has broken ranks with his organisation and called for "full compensation" for the victims of a cholera epidemic in Haiti. | Gustavo Gallon, the UN's top human rights officer in Haiti, also said in his r...
Poverty amid mining riches in Katanga IRINnews KIUBO, 27 February 2014 (IRIN) - The row over how to patch up the severed highway was heating up. With truck crews close to blows over who should lay the massive rocks into the mud that had halted traffic for a week, one driver pinned the blame on th...
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...
Former Vice President Walter Mondale has heart surgery The Examiner Former Vice President Walter Mondale had heart surgery on Wednesday. The 86-year-old politician who was vice president to President Jimmy Carter, as well as the Democratic nominee for president against Ronald Reagan in 1984, had an unspecified procedure at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, according to an Inquisitr report on Wednesday. | Mondale...
Scientists solve malaria mystery The Times Of India LONDON: Scientists have solved the long-standing mystery of how the malaria parasite initiates the process of passing from human to human. | Malaria is transmitted to people through bites of mosquitoes which have themselves been infected by the Plasmodium parasites that cause the disease through a previous blood meal taken from an infected person. ...
