Water Aid Nigeria is calling on the government to do a better job on providing clean water and sanitation services. From a This Day story found at All Africa we read that the push for sanitation is following a cholera outbreak from earlier this year.
The Inter Press Service has this story about a Vitamin A supplementation program in India. UNICEF conducts the program that helps to give Vitamin A shots to children twice a year.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has a story that says that the cholera outbreak in Haiti could hurt the rice harvest this year. Farmers fear that crops near rivers and creeks may be infected with cholera.
First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC
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Two drugs are being trialled in the Ituri region in a programme set up just
six weeks after the outbreak was declared, with hopes it will reduce
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