Water Recedes, But Benin’s Health Concerns Mount

As the floodwaters begin to recede in parts of Benin, the new threat is an explosion of infectious diseases, particularly cholera and malaria. The worst flooding in nearly half a century in the country of some 9 million people has cut many communities...

Superstition Undermines Pakistan’s Clean Water Messages

From his village in the southern Punjab district of Rajanpur, a holy man believed to be endowed with mystical powers (`pir’) is frequently called upon to intone religious verses over containers of water – in the belief that this will purify...

Study Finds Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Can Undergo Structural Brain Alterations

A large academic study has demonstrated structural changes in specific brain regions in female patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a condition that causes pain and discomfort in the abdomen, along with diarrhea, constipation or both.

NEPAL: Specialists Call for Stronger Measures to Combat Diarrhoea

Aid agencies are urging Nepal to implement stronger water and sanitation measures to prevent diarrhea outbreaks, which claim hundreds of lives each year. Ahead of next month’s monsoon season – the four- to five-month period when there is a...

Policy Unveiled to Combat Diarrheal Disease, a Killer of Kenyan Children

Today the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, together with the Department of Family Health (Division of Child and Adolescent Health), unveiled a renewed set of national policy guidelines to redouble diarrheal disease management and control efforts...

40 Somali Children Admitted to Banadir Hospital with Acute Watery-diarrhea

Nearly 40 Somali children under the age of five years have been have been admitted to the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu for the past 24 hours because of acute watery-diarrhea outbreak, doctors revealed on Sunday. Doctor Mohamed Isse Abdi of the Mother...

Six Million Preventable Child Deaths…a Silent Emergency

World Vision has launched a five-year global campaign to end massive “child rights violation” of child and infant death Every 3.5 seconds a child under five dies: 24,000 deaths a day; almost nine million a year – India shares the highest...

Ethiopia Observes Second Global Hand Washing Day

On Thursday Ethiopia observed the second Global Hand-washing Day where over 1.5 million school children across the country washed their hands to observe the day. The global hand-washing initiative was launched in 2008 by the Global Public-Private Partnership...

27 People, Mostly Children, have Died From Diarrhea in the City of Warsheek, Somalia

At least 27 people, mostly children, have died from watery-diarrhea in the city of Warsheek, about 90 kilometers east of Mogadishu in the past 24 hours, according to a health official in the city. Abiikar Shikhey, the director of the city’s sole hospital,...