MUMBAI: WHO's first ever report on the estimated burden of foodborne disease shows that over 150 million people fall sick and 175000 die every year after consuming contaminated food in the south-ea
The report presents the first global and regional estimates of the burden of foodborne diseases. The large disease burden from food highlights the importance of food safety, particularly in Africa, South-East Asia and other regions.
More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, UN
The federal government has lamented loss of N455 billion annually to poor sanitation saying it is equivalent to 1.3 per cent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP).
Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF’s representative said, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem.
"It is estimated that only one in three families (34 per cent) in Tanzania has access to improved toilets with wide disparities between regions, across urban and rural areas," according to a report
Poor sanitation and open defecation, which continue to be the bane of the Ghanaian society, has robbed the nation of over 4,500 of its youth through the outbreak of diarrhoea in 2014 alone.
The Director of the Maputo City Directorate of Health, Sheila Cuco has confirmed the death of eighteen people in the capital as the latest victims of diarrheal diseases between January and Septembe
