Just as always is the case following torrential rains during the onset of the rainy season, diseases like water borne diseases like cholera and typhoid wreck havoc. In...

More than 100 people have died and over 5,000 have been infected in outbreaks of cholera, influenza and diarrhoea in remote parts of Papua New Guinea since last month,...

Photo: Food Supplied by WFP in remote Nepal World Food Program (WFP) has threatened to suspend food aid in Nepal refuting the reports that the food distributed under...

Just a yesterday, I had the great joy (not!) of watching Robert Mugabe (I refuse to call him “President”) in a Zimbabwe nationwide television broadcast, tell the...

A bony limb flops from the wheelbarrow in limp resignation. A head lolls amid the pile of blankets. A woman is trundling her elderly mother home from a clinic to...

“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” This situation is particularly pertinent with regards to Zimbabwe as I was listening to the morning news...

Due to the outbreak of Cholera, at least 70 people have been died in Orissa till the date. According to the report, another 1,500 people are still suffering from this...

The health of 2.6 billion people in the developing world is in jeopardy! The prime culprit is a lack of toilets. According to a new study, lack of proper sanitation...