He said, “No state, as of today, has received cholera vaccine. The most important thing is prevention. And for those who have cholera to be very quick with the treatment.

This includes distributing cholera prevention kits, decontaminating homes and communal latrines, and setting up hand disinfection stations. Teams are also stepping up prevention measures, ...

In Nedi Camp, Malawi, a 5-year-old boy washes his hands, an important cholera prevention measure. ... delivering rapid water treatment kits to health facilities and cholera treatment units; ...

The arrival of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits for cholera in Malawi today signals the start of a global programme that will see more than 1.2 million tests distributed to 14 countries at high ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is launching prevention efforts, including raising awareness amongst vulnerable communities of how to prevent the spread of disease, to prepare for a possible ...

According to him, the cholera kits will be essential in the control and prevention of outbreaks, while Acute Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) kits would help frontline health workers to combat ...

Cholera, driven by poor sanitation and hygiene, is an acute diarrheal infection caused by ingesting contaminated food or water with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

U.N. agencies are scaling up cholera prevention and treatment programs to get on top of a new, deadly cholera outbreak in Sudan that threatens to further destabilize communities suffering from ...

Cholera should no longer exist, yet it kills thousands of people every year. New analysis from international group WaterAid offers ways to fast-track its prevention and control ...

Cholera RDT kits have been strategically distributed to some health facilities across the 30 LGAs.” He said the Ministry of Health would continue to intensify public awareness on the prevention ...