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Mar 06, 2024
Nurse supervisor Joseph Muhisi checks on a suspected cholera patient in Kanyaruchinya, DRC, at a displacement camp for families fleeing the volcanic eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo in 2021. The camp implemented oral cholera vaccine to stem the tide
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Feb 21, 2024
A displacement camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Displacement can impact access to routine immunization for children and their families. Credit: PATH/Ley Uwera.
Vaccines are one of the most successful public health interventions to
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Feb 14, 2024
European scientists said 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded, and 2024 is predicted to surpass it. The global temperature exceeded 2°C above pre-industrial levels on November 17th last year. These events of temperature rise warn us of the dire
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Feb 07, 2024
Baby Vusi, here with his mother, Teresa, received the oral rotavirus vaccine during the 2012 rotavirus vaccine pilot in Lusaka Province, Zambia. In 2013, Zambia introduced the vaccine nationwide. Hear from Teresa about why she thinks all caregivers
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Jan 24, 2024
Diarrhea is the second leading killer disease of children less than five years old around the world. Diarrheal disease is caused by infection with various bacterial, viral, and parasitic organisms. There are six pathogens that are responsible for
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Jan 10, 2024
The new year is a great opportunity to prepare for innovative projects, initiatives, and efforts to Defeat Diarrheal Disease, but also a time to reflect on what we have learned. Despite strong progress, we know we have more work to do that requires
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Dec 13, 2023
Two young children await their doses of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) in Rwanda. It is the hope that children under the age of five in Chad, Guinea, Somalia and South Sudan will soon get the opportunity to get their doses of the PCV as
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Nov 22, 2023
Symbol of World Toilet Day 2023. Photo: UN-Water.
World Toilet Day might be over, but the UN Water logo of the dedicated hummingbird from the ancient story is still flapping its wings, reminding us of what we announced at the UN Water Conference
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Nov 22, 2023
A recent study titled 'Estimating the global impact of rotavirus vaccines on child mortality' was published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. The study concluded that rotavirus vaccines have made a valuable contribution to global
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Nov 16, 2023
A woman standing in front of a well constructed toilet in Northwest Nigeria. Photo: UN-Water/Apochi Owoicho.
Sanitation is a human right and yet 3.5 billion people still have no safe toilets and 419 million still have to defecate in the open.
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