As the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Bayelsa State government intervene to prevent and fight cholera outbreaks, they have lamented that 60 per cent of communities in the state ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

Without adequate resources, an estimated 12.8 million displaced people, including 6.3 million children, could be left without life-saving health interventions in 2025, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund on Tuesday sensitised students of the University of Maiduguri on cholera awareness and the use of U-Report to raise awareness of health emergency casesAddressing the ...

Cholera outbreak kills three people in Kisumu County; Health CEC Gregory Ganda says sensitisation efforts ongoing.

Kisumu health department said the three died earlier this week. Poor hygiene has been suspected to be the cause of the ...

MSF deployed an emergency response in Mayom, a remote area in South Sudan, to respond to the heavy escalation in cholera cases. The response involved vaccinating over 20,000 people, which had a great ...

Lagos has warned against cholera outbreak, particularly as the rainy season approaches. It called for vigorous response-drive ...

South Sudan is suffering its worst cholera outbreak since it became an independent nation in 2011, the United Nations warned ...

ABOUT 2 900 people have died from cholera in Eastern and Southern Africa in the past 15 months. The deaths are from 178 000 cases confirmed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in 16 ...

The NHS has warned of four telltale signs of a potentially deadly disease to be aware of, with cases reported in the UK. Earlier this month, UK authorities confirmed four cases of cholera ...

declared a cholera epidemic in October. The World Health Organization says some 4,000 people died from the "preventable and easily treatable disease" in 2023, up 71 percent on the previous year ...