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Boost for healthcare in DRC

26 May, 2013 - 01:15
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IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97761/Boost-for-healthcare-in-DRC
NAIROBI 31 March 2013 (IRIN) - The British government has announced a major new programme aimed at providing essential healthcare to six million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The five-year, US$270.7 million project will focus on rebuilding health facilities, training health workers, and supplying drugs and equipment.

Building resilience

26 May, 2013 - 01:15
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97594/Building-resilience
JOHANNESBURG 08 March 2013 (IRIN) - A series of articles exploring what resilience means for vulnerable communities, and its impact on the architecture of aid.

Marshalling smartphones, gravediggers to fight dengue in Pakistan

26 May, 2013 - 01:15
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98010/Marshalling-smartphones-gravediggers-to-fig...
LAHORE 10 May 2013 (IRIN) - On the frontline in the fight against dengue fever in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, the authorities have a sharp eye for spare car tyres.

Export oil, import water – the Middle East’s risky economics

26 May, 2013 - 01:15
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97596/Export-oil-import-water-the-Middle-East-s-r...
DUBAI 05 March 2013 (IRIN) - The world’s driest region, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is getting drier at an alarming rate.

Cholera outbreak in Congo

26 May, 2013 - 01:15
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97661/Cholera-outbreak-in-Congo
BRAZZAVILLE 15 March 2013 (IRIN) - An influx of migrants from the countryside into the Republic of Congo's second largest city, Pointe-Noire, is exacerbating a cholera outbreak that began in November 2012. The outbreak infected at least 389 and killed 10, according to the health ministry and local authorities.

Breakup Continues on the Wilkins Ice Shelf

25 May, 2013 - 06:02
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81174&src=eorss-iotd

NASAOriginally Published by NASA Earth Observatory - Wave action and glacial dynamics split another chunk of ice off of the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2013.

Turtle rescued after swallowing plastic

25 May, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22664985#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=...

Originally Published by BBC News

– An injured turtle found by a fisherman in Florida has been returned to the sea after being treated at a rescue centre.

WASHplus Weekly on WASH-Related Diseases

24 May, 2013 - 19:48
Source: 
Sanitation updates
URL: 
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/washplus-weekly-on-wash-relate...

This issue contains recent studies and resources on several WASH-related diseases: cholera, dengue, diarrhea, leptospirosis, neglected tropical diseases, malnutrition, and typhoid. Included are a just-published UNICEF cholera toolkit, an updated review of WASH-related diseases from DfID, typhoid case studies from Bangladesh and Fiji, and other resources. weekly2

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