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8/14/2007
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Uganda - update

8/3/2007
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Uganda

7/30/2007
Poliomyelitis in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

7/30/2007
Poliomyelitis in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

7/25/2007
Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 19

6/25/2007
Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 18

6/12/2007
Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 17

6/11/2007
Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 16

5/9/2007
Rift Valley Fever in Kenya, Somalia and the United Republic of Tanzania

5/9/2007
Rift Valley Fever in Kenya, Somalia and the United Republic of Tanzania

Links on the Web

AFM - Africa Fighting Malaria

Malaria and Infectious Diseases in Africa

Malaria Journal

Medicines for Malaria Venture

MIM - Multilateral Initaitive on Malaria

Sickle Cell Foundation of Nigeria

Headlines

Clean Water and Sanitation Priorities for Congolese Displaced

Zimbabwe: Most Harare suburbs go without water

Zimbabwe Cholera Crisis Mounts As Harare Water System Shut Down

AFRICA: Groundwater: Protecting a Hidden Resource

LIBERIA: No relief as most Monrovians go without toilets

River Nile treaty talks hit deadlock - Uganda stops sharing water data with Egypt

US Company Develops New Method of Water Purification

KENYA: Fatuma Mohammed: "We fear the sewage is getting mixed up with clean water"

AFRICA: Water and Improved Livelihoods

Water Wars Hit Rural Zimbabwe

ZAMBIA: Coping with less and less water

KENYA: Hundreds displaced in "drought" clashes

An NGO Helps Provide Clean Water to Northern Ghana

Project Encourages Developing Countries to Share Strategies for Improving Water Quality, Sanitation

Developing Countries Encouraged to Share Strategies for Improving Water and Sanitation

KENYA: Thirteen dead in clashes over water

MOZAMBIQUE: The goal is clean water for all

South Africa Beats Deadline on Water, Sanitation

Water Progresses, Sanitation Regresses

Wastewater Crops Feeding Millions

South Africa Beats Deadline on Water, Sanitation

UGANDA: Looming Problems With Kampala's Water

SOMALIA: Finding Water in Mogadishu

ZIMBABWE: Water provision in disarray

Officials Say Project Will Mean Safe Drinking Water for Almost One Million People in Mali

Museveni, Mubarak discuss Nile water

2.5 billion live with poor sanitation facilities - More people using drinking water from safe sources, says a new report

MAURITIUS: Water -- Waste Not, Want Not

BENIN: Sunshine + plastic bottle = clean water

LESOTHO: Water running on empty

Features

orld. Overall

.Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene, is associated with 1.7 million deaths a year worldwide mainly through infectious diarrhoea. Nine out of ten such deaths are in children, and virtually all of the deaths are in developing countries. In Africa this translated into more than 6 hundred thousand deaths.

Water and sanitation data for Africa

Information

Source is brought to you in collaboration with the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

Special Coverage: AFRICA MALARIA DAY, APRIL 25

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