Water in Karachi's Orangi town contaminated with fecal waste: study Dawn KARACHI: A recent study has shown high levels of fecal contamination and rare presence of chlorine in the piped water being supplied to Orangi Town. | The study published in the Bulletin of Environment, Pharmacology and Life Sciences, an online journ...
What A Difference A Drug Makes In The Fight Against River Blindness National Public Radio 5:00 AM ET | Jason Beaubien | Facebook Twitter Instagram | i | Albert Tamanja Bidim, a community volunteer, distributes ivermectin, the tablet that fights river blindness, in the Ghanaian town of Beposo 2. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption | toggle cap...
E-health policy not reflecting the people’s needs Graphic Presentations | Dr Abuosi explained how developments in the use of ICTs in the country had not been matched by an enabling environment to harness the gains and maximise them for the health sector. | According to him, an established enabling environme...
Cholera Trend-Nkhata Bay Focus All Africa [Malawi News Agency] Nkhata Bay -Cholera is a diarrhea disease caused by Vibrio cholerae. Since 1800, the disease has spread through the world in seven large waves. The seventh pandemic began in 1961, reached Africa in 1970 and progressed further to ...
Danger! Food Vendors Cook With Hydrant Water Peace FM Online Today’s investigations have revealed that food vendors who sell at Tip-Toe Lane at Kwame Nkrumah Circle use water from fire hydrants to cook for public consumption as well as for their domestic use. | The practice, which poses grave d...
Dedicated infectious disease unit launched at Mohali's Ivy Hospital The Times Of India Chandigarh: Ivy Hospital, Mohali on Tuesday announced to launch the tricity's first state-of-art 'Dedicated Infectious Diseases Unit'. The unit will offer treatment of infectious life in dengue, malaria, typhoid, swine flu, hepatitis, UTI, acute gast...
Oral cholera vaccines to double to 6 million does after UN approves new supplier The Oslo Times Jan 10, NY: Faced with a global shortage of oral cholera vaccines (OCV), the United Nations health agency announced that supply should double this year to six million doses, with further increases later, after it approved a third producer to fight a ...
Ghanaians in Belgium fund water project for Oda-Nkwanta Graphic Under the project, two mechanised boreholes are being sunk to feed 24 public standpipes and a public sanitation facility. | Funding | The Ghanaian community in Belgium is providing GH¢160,000 of the funds and the MP is supplementing it with GH¢40,0...
Cholera outbreak in the world's largest refugee camp Norway Today At least ten people have died and over 1,000 sick as a result of an outbreak of cholera among Somali refugees in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, says the UN. | Vimeo | Photo: The Dadaab refugee campAt least ten people have died and over 1,...
I’m Proud to Be a Gay ‘Slut’ The Daily Beast The LGBT community has reclaimed the word, making it one of admiration and approval. | Gay men aren’t having nearly as much sex as you might think they’re having. | In a 2012 survey of its users, the popular dating website OkCupid (which is owned...
WHO Doubles Global Supply of Cholera Vaccine WPXI Countries that have been pleading in vain for cholera vaccine to fight outbreaks of the killer disease may now be able to get it, the World Health Org | Read full story | ...
