Over 2,000 Lives Now Lost to Worst Ever Cholera Outbreak, UN Reports


PRESS RELEASE  —  Zimbabwe:   Health System Utterly Collapsed - Report
Physicians for Human Rights (Boston)
13 January 2009

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has published a report showing how the cholera epidemic which ravages Zimbabwe is but one symptom of an utter collapse of the country’s health system, and ... [read more]

NEWS  —  Zimbabwe:   Cholera Death Toll Rises Above 2,000
UN News Service (New York)
13 January 2009

The death toll in Zimbabwe's worst ever cholera outbreak has now topped 2,000, with more than 100 deaths - and nearly 1,500 new cases - added just today, the United Nations World Health Organization ... [read more]

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Author: TD
Wed Jan 14 06:32:39 2009

It is unfortunate that one side of the equation has been clearly well articulated and indeed the health system has collapsed. The observers also need to take an unbiassed review of the sanctions that are supposed to be targetted, but in the process the generality of the population is caught in the crossfire as well, they should review these and recommend to the the instigators whether they are working or not and if not, the likes of Gerorge Bush and Gordon Brown together with RG should meet at the ICC charged for crimes against humanity as well. The… [Read Full Text]

Author: awt_independent
Wed Jan 14 15:39:26 2009

So which sanctions are you referring too... the ban on travel? OR the ban on arms?

Author: Icho!
Wed Jan 14 07:57:01 2009

The usual and boring same old stupid attack on people trying to liberate themselves.we also have our association called Liberation For Human Rights,so dont make unnecessary noises on these trumped up human rights violations. You are Boston and what your G Bush doing in foreign territories,what are your troops doing doing in the Gulf Region, is that not suppresisng Arab rights to do what they want with their resources. You think, just because you are American or British, whatever you say about an African issue should prevail, what stupid thinking!.Why dont you talk about the sanctions you placed on Zim… [Read Full Text]

Author: awt_independent
Wed Jan 14 15:41:23 2009

how about the money that was siphoned away from funds for chemical treatment of water to build one mayors mansion? Nothing to do with the west that one. And what does Brown have to do with American policy? Nothing!

Author: kjrs120
Fri Jan 16 23:02:45 2009

Icho, Zimbabwe is not a poor country by any stretch of the imagination. It is your thinking that is poor or should I say your lack of your own thinking because Mugabe tells you when to sit and when to stand. By a doctor stating that cholera is man-made, means that man can control it very easily. There is bacteria everywhere, but when certain kinds enter our bodies, our immune system cannot cope to defeat those organisms without medical intervention, and that is why so many people are dying. All this national grief just because… [Read Full Text]





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