Borno State Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe has directed all ...

- The Borno State Government has directed the immediate activation of cholera prevention and control measures in schools following a confirmed outbreak of the disease in Maiduguri and surrounding ...

BusinessDay had earlier reported that at least 39 people have been confirmed dead, with 4,204 cases of cholera recorded ...

Ghana has taken a major step toward preventing and controlling cholera by identifying high-risk districts for targeted, multi-sectoral interventions. With technical support from the World Health ...

Countries across Africa are battling some of the worst cholera outbreaks seen in decades. UNICEF is on the ground working alongside government and local partners in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Global cholera vaccine supply has now increased to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventive campaigns for the first time in over three years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, ...

The arrival of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits for cholera in Malawi today signals the start of a global programme that will see more than 1.2 million tests distributed to 14 countries at high risk ...

Cholera is a deadly diarrhoeal disease spread through ingesting contaminated food and water. Entirely preventable, it can kill within hours if a severe case is left untreated. The World Health ...

Wilbes, who has been experiencing cholera symptoms, drinks an oral rehydration solution at an oral rehydration point set up by the Malawi Red Cross Society (MRSC) in Lilongwe. Globally, the cholera ...

An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable ...

A residnt of Nairobi's Mathare slum gets an Oral Cholera Vaccine during a previous mass vaccination drive. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] The Ministry of Health is planning to roll out massive Oral ...

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Republic of Korea's Global Disease Eradication Fund (GDEF) have agreed to conduct joint projects to fight cholera, which include vaccination for a ...