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Sudan: UN helps southern clean up disease-causing waste in the South
Some 16,000 volunteers will take to the streets of Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, next month in a United Nations programme to tackle health hazards caused by public dumping of waste in a rapidly… more →
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MIT scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water
dietvorst wrote 2 weeks ago: Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting mil … more →
Bangladesh: ponds 'caused arsenic' contamination, MIT study says
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dietvorst wrote 2 weeks ago: Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting mil … more →
Gates Foundation awards $10.9 million to study impacts of sanitation on diseases
dietvorst wrote 2 weeks ago: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million gran … more →
Sudan: UN helps southern clean up disease-causing waste in the South
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: Some 16,000 volunteers will take to the streets of Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, next month i … more →
Mozambique: remote villages out of sight, out of mind?
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: Mcondece village in northwest Mozambique has a population of around 400; its original inhabitants mo … more →
Zambia: Lusaka declares war against malaria, cholera
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: Lusaka District Commissioner Christah Kalulu is confident [that the city] will have fewer cases of c … more →
Cameroon: cholera kills at least 51 in north
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: Cholera has killed at least 51 people in the past few weeks in northern Cameroon, where health exper … more →
Southern Africa: lack of clean groundwater a health threat
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: As the rainy season approaches, and sewage from pit latrines seep further into the Zimbabwe’s … more →
Kenya: cholera outbreaks in the north, Coast and Nairobi slums
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: In early October 2009, at least 29 people died of cholera and hundreds more were being treated for c … more →
Philippines: flood victims grapple with Leptospirosis
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: Weeks after back-to-back cyclones left nearly 1,000 people dead, the Philippines is grappling with a … more →
Diarrhoea kills over a million over-fives each year
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dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: Diarrhoea kills three times more over-five-year-olds in Africa and South-East Asia than previously t … more →
Pakistan: ‘24% of country’s hospital beds occupied by waterborne disease patients’
dietvorst wrote 3 weeks ago: In Pakistan, 38.5 million people do not have access to safe drinking water and 50.7 million do not h … more →
Tackling global health risks prevents premature deaths
dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: Global life expectancy could be increased by nearly five years by addressing five factors affecting … more →
Brazil: Sanitation deficit "shameful" - expert
dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: Nearly 50% of the nearly 200mn inhabitants of Brazil do not have access to sewerage networks, accord … more →
Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done
dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: Johansson, E.M. … [et al.] (2009). Diarrhoea : why children are still dying and what can be do … more →
UNICEF/WHO - Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done
dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: Despite the existence of inexpensive and efficient means of treatment, diarrhoea kills more children … more →
Tanzania: Death toll rises as cholera spreads
dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: An outbreak of cholera in northern Tanzania has continued to spread, claiming 59 lives over the past … more →
Zimbabwe: new cholera outbreak kills five
dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: A fresh outbreak of cholera has killed five people from more than 100 recorded cases, state media re … more →
Papua New Guinea: cholera patients battle stigma
dietvorst wrote 1 month ago: An ongoing cholera outbreak is killing a growing number of people in Papua New Guinea and making sco … more →
