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Zambia: Govt Asks For Help With Cholera As Schools Remain Shut During Outbreak
allAfrica, 10 January 2024
Primary and secondary learners in Zambia will resume school on January 29 - three weeks late - the education ministry announced as the country's cholera cases reaches 7,000… Read more »
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Zambia: Cholera - Govt Rolls Out Measures to Halt Spread
Times of Zambia, 9 January 2024
"We can only defeat cholera if we work together. Taking measures to avoid contracting the disease is our call to action." Read more »
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Zambia: We Need to Change Our Attitudes Towards Hygiene
Times of Zambia, 5 January 2024
THE Cholera epidemic does not seem to be letting up, going by the numbers of those that are capitulating everyday from the malady since the outbreak last January. Read more »
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Zambia: Lusaka Central Business District an Eyesore
Times of Zambia, 4 January 2024
For years now the Lusaka CBD has remained unchanged and efforts by local authorities to uplift the standard have failed, resulting in some critics labelling the capital city as the… Read more »
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Zambia: Zambia Heightens Measures to Contain Cholera Outbreak
Independent (Kampala), 29 December 2023
Zambian health authorities on Thursday announced that measures have been heightened to contain the outbreak of cholera which has now spread to 12 districts in the country. Read more »
Zambia Govt Asks For Help With Cholera Outbreak
Primary and secondary learners in Zambia will resume school on January 29 - three weeks late - the education ministry announced as the country's cholera cases reaches 7,000 and 273 people are dead.
Health Minister Sylvia Masebo said that the 60,000-seater National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka is now being used as a health facility for cholera to ease the pressure on hospitals.
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A spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017, warns UNICEF. "If urg Read more »
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Twelve African countries are currently reporting cases, with South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe the latest to detect cholera. Weekly cholera cases in the affected African ... Read more »
Cholera outbreaks used to occur in five-year cycles, but recent decades have seen annual surges. This year, Zimbabwe recorded more than 7,000 cases and declared a state of emergency.
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Climate change and some humanitarian crises are cited as contributing to the outbreaks that Somalia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, Cameroon, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, ... Read more »
