In Tanzania, Unicef Dispatching Working to Halt Cholera Outbreak Among ...

In Tanzania, Unicef Dispatching Working to Halt Cholera Outbreak Among ...
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is rushing critical relief supplies to Tanzania's north-western border with Burundi amid a devastating cholera outbreak affecting tens of thousands of refugees there. In a press release issued earlier today, UNICEF ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Michuzi

Cholera outbreak triggers UNICEF cross-border relief operation

Lake Tanganyika, Burundi-Tanzania border, May 20, 2015 – UNICEF has rushed relief supplies to Tanzania’s north-western border with Burundi, in response to a devastating cholera outbreak among 50,000 Burundian refugees gathered on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
UNICEF has dispatched cholera treatment supplies, as well as WASH, health and nutrition items, shuttled in from Burundi and Tanzania to the affected area, and is working with partners on both sides of the border to help scale up the...

 

9 years ago

GlobalPost

08 Oct

Cholera outbreak kills 54 in Tanzania: UN

Cholera outbreak kills 54 in Tanzania: UN
GlobalPost
DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- An ongoing cholera outbreak starting in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam has killed 54 people since August, the United Nations (UN) said in a report released on Wednesday in the east African nation.

 

10 years ago

Voice Of America

27 May

UN: 'Significant Challenges' in Tanzania Cholera Outbreak

Voice of America
UN: 'Significant Challenges' in Tanzania Cholera Outbreak
Voice of America
GENEVA—. U.N. aid agencies report better sanitation and clean drinking water is containing a cholera epidemic among Burundian refugees in Tanzania, but there are fears that the deadly disease could spread to the local Tanzanian population. The U.N. ...
UNHCR slashes Burundi refugee figure from earlier 'guesstimate'Reuters

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10 years ago

Yahoo News

26 May

Cholera outbreak among Burundi refugees in Tanzania slowing: UN

Yahoo News
Cholera outbreak among Burundi refugees in Tanzania slowing: UN
Yahoo News
Geneva (AFP) - A cholera outbreak raging among Burundian refugees in Tanzania has slowed significantly with no new deaths reported in the past five days, the United Nations said Tuesday. Related Stories. Cholera outbreak kills 27 Burundi refugees in ...
UN: Cholera Outbreak among Burundi Refugees in Tanzania SlowingNaharnet
Saving Burundi Refugees With a WWI German WarshipAllAfrica.com
Burundian refugees wait...

 

9 years ago

Dewji Blog

10 Dec

UNICEF, Government and Push Mobile Use Technology to Contain Cholera

UNICEF Tanzania’s Representative a.i., Paul Edwards and Freddie Manento, CEO of Push Mobile, sign a partnership to send life-saving information on cholera by SMS to over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users. (Credits: UNICEF Tanzania/2015/Bisin).

Today, Tanzania’s Government, UNICEF and Push Mobile, a mobile communication company providing SMS aggregation services across all the available mobile networks in Tanzania, have signed a partnership to reach over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Sep

Cholera outbreak spreads to Singida

Tanzania's Cholera epidemic which erupted in Dar es Salaam has now started spreading upcountry due to the mobility of people through commercial trade, The Citizen has learnt.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Sep

Dawasco refutes blame for cholera outbreak

The Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Corporation (Dawasco) has refuted claims that water supplied by the public utility in some areas was contaminated with bacteria that cause cholera.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Oct

Cholera outbreak spreads to Mwanza killing 8

Tanzania’s cholera outbreak which has killed at least 36 people in Dar es Salaam and is spreading up country into Singida has now been reported in Mwanza Region where it has been recently confirmed that eight people have already died from the water born bacterial disease.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Nov

K’njaro authorities move to avert cholera outbreak

Kilimanjaro Region has stepped up several measures to contain cholera, a water-borne communicable disease, which has lately wreaked havoc in various regions, killing at least 100.

 

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