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Cholera is caused by a lack of access to clean drinking water and unhygienic conditions. Misuse of antibiotics makes it difficult and expensive to treat outbreaks.
Despite being so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye, pathogens that cause human disease have greatly affected the way humans live for centuries.
Here we explore our past and present struggles with the most significant infectious diseases human beings have faced.
Already one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian disasters, the situation in Yemen is only getting worse.
Cholera kills thousands every year but is treatable if it is caught early. Understanding how El Niño shifts cholera risks in Africa can help countries prepare for outbreaks and save lives.
More than 788 health facilities have been destroyed in parts of North-Eastern Nigeria captured by Boko Haram insurgents, crippling health services in the area.
By not acknowledging what Haitians themselves think they need, the UN is failing to sort out one of its worst ever blunders.
Developed and developing countries alike struggle with water quality problems. For World Water Day, a look at the challenges – and some potential solutions – to better treating wastewater.
Cholera is estimated to infect between 3 to 5 million people globally, every year.
A lack of decent sanitation and clean drinking water are fertile ground for a cholera outbreak.
As East Africa becomes warmer, the threat of climate sensitive diseases such as malaria, Rift Valley Fever and cholera is increasing.
After admitting that its peacekeepers brought the disease to the country, the organisation must make financial amends too.
Africa should focus on the feasible reforms of the UN and de-emphasise its demand for improved representation on the Security Council voting reforms, given the complex politics around these issues.
It has long been known that UN forces brought disease to the country in the aftermath of an earthquake, but how can amends be made?
The ‘functional immunity’ granted to UN officials made good sense when the body was founded after World War II. But as its organisational functions have expanded, so has this immunity.
The UN might now apologise for poisoning scores of Roma people in Kosovo – but its role in Haiti’s cholera disaster still goes unacknowledged.
Unless drinking water and sanitation infrastructure are improved, cholera could remain in Haiti indefinitely.
The way data is currently collected has limited use for environmental health researchers when it comes to understanding health problems at a localised level.
Former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier may be dead and buried, but real democracy remains a very distant prospect in Haiti. After ongoing failures to hold elections that should have taken place…
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Director DNDi Eastern Africa and Senior Principal Research Scientist, KEMRI, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Senior Lecturer, International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor and Water Management Expert, University of South Africa
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Recognised Researcher, Imperial College London
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Research Officer / EIDM Specialist, University of Cape Town
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Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Principal Visiting Fellow & Former Deputy Director, International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), United Nations University
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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President Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australian Catholic University
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Postdoctoral research fellow in English, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in International Relations, University of Glasgow
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Independent Researcher, University of Nottingham
