WHO Releases $16m To Tackle Cholera | READ MORE
Faith Ukanwa
Sep 29, 2023
WHO Releases $16m To Tackle Cholera | READ MORE
The World Health Organisation has released 16 million dollars from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies to tackle cholera.
WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, said this during an online news conference.
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Ghebreyesus said that the organisation was providing essential supplies, coordinating the on-the-ground response with partners, supporting countries to detect, prevent and treat cholera, and informing people how to protect themselves.
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"To support this work, we have appealed for 160 million dollars, and we have released more than 16 million dollars from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies.
"But the real solution to cholera lies in ensuring everyone has access to safe water and sanitation, which is an internationally recognized human right,ÔÇØ he said.
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According to him, in the previous week, WHO published new data showing that cases reported in 2022 were more than double those in 2021.
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He said that the preliminary data for 2023 suggested was likely to be even worse.
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"So far, 28 countries have reported cases in 2023 compared with 16 during the same period in 2022.
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"The countries with the most concerning outbreaks right now are Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq and Sudan.
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"Significant progress has been made in countries in Southern Africa, including Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, but these countries remain at risk as the rainy season approaches,ÔÇØ Ghebreyesus said.
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According to him, the worst affected countries and communities are poor, without access to safe drinking water or toilets.
He said that they also face shortages of oral cholera vaccine and other supplies, as well as overstretched health workers, who are dealing with multiple disease outbreaks and other health emergencies.
On COVID-19, Ghebreyesus said that as the northern hemisphere winter approaches, the organisation continued to see concerning trends.
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He said that among the relatively few countries that report them, both hospitalisations and ICU admissions have increased in the past 28 days, particularly in the Americas and Europe.
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WHO boss said that meanwhile, vaccination levels among the most at-risk groups remained worryingly low.
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"Two-thirds of the world's population has received a complete primary series, but only one-third has received an additional, or "boosterÔÇØ dose.
"COVID-19 may no longer be the acute crisis it was two years ago, but that does not mean we can ignore it,ÔÇØ he said.
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According to him, countries invested so much in building their systems to respond to COVID-19.
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He urged countries to sustain those systems, to ensure people can be protected, tested and treated for COVID-19 and other infectious threats.
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"That means sustaining systems for collaborative surveillance, community protection, safe and scalable care, access to countermeasures and coordination,ÔÇØ he said.
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