Cholera

Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has approved 64 million dollars budget for the immediate fight against cholera outbreak that killed at least 30 people in the capital Harare, a cabinet minister said. The funds will also be used…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe on Thursday urged the Harare city council and other local authorities to work on improving sanitation to prevent water-borne diseases. The president spoke as a cholera outbreak in the capital…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has called for urgent and strengthened interventions following more reported cases and deaths from the recent cholera outbreak in Borno. This call was made…

The Borno State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Haruna Mshelia has said that Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) has hit Borno State with 1,068 cases in 10 Local Government Areas of the state, northeast, Nigeria. Out of the reported cases,…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it had launched campaign in Africa for more than two million people in five countries to have access to Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV). The vaccines, funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,…

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) would host the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) project which would strengthen disease preparedness and response architecture in ECOWAS sub-region. Dr Chikwe…

Mr Haruna Manga, Primary Healthcare Coordinator, Karu Local Government Council, Nasarawa State, has urged residents to desist from indiscriminate dumping of refuse to prevent the outbreak of diseases such as gastroenteritis. Manga said…

Efforts to contain a cholera outbreak that has struck more than 1,000 people in refugee camps in northeast Nigeria are being hampered because people are failing to report suspected cases to authorities, a United Nations official said.…

Cholera has claimed no fewer than 23 deaths and 530 suspected cases in Borno, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday . The UN agency added in a statement that a cholera outbreak was first…