Cholera is estimated to infect between 3 to 5 million people globally, every year.
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A lack of decent sanitation and clean drinking water are fertile ground for a cholera outbreak.
As East Africa becomes warmer, the threat of climate sensitive diseases such as malaria, Rift Valley Fever and cholera is increasing.
After admitting that its peacekeepers brought the disease to the country, the organisation must make financial amends too.
Africa should focus on the feasible reforms of the UN and de-emphasise its demand for improved representation on the Security Council voting reforms, given the complex politics around these issues.
It has long been known that UN forces brought disease to the country in the aftermath of an earthquake, but how can amends be made?
The ‘functional immunity’ granted to UN officials made good sense when the body was founded after World War II. But as its organisational functions have expanded, so has this immunity.
The UN might now apologise for poisoning scores of Roma people in Kosovo – but its role in Haiti’s cholera disaster still goes unacknowledged.
Unless drinking water and sanitation infrastructure are improved, cholera could remain in Haiti indefinitely.
The way data is currently collected has limited use for environmental health researchers when it comes to understanding health problems at a localised level.
Former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier may be dead and buried, but real democracy remains a very distant prospect in Haiti. After ongoing failures to hold elections that should have taken place…
Contemplating how Papua New Guinea (PNG) would deal with Ebola may not be that different from asking the same of Liberia 12 months ago. While PNG’s per capita gross national income (US$2,540 in 2013) is…
On October 19 an inspector sent north from London to Sunderland reported a long-awaited arrival: the first British case of cholera. It was 1831 and as part of a second pandemic cholera had again progressed…
In October 2010, a cholera outbreak began in Haiti for the first time in more than 100 years. The strain that was brought into Haiti has been traced to a region in Nepal from which a UN peacekeeping contingent…
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