Wednesday 4 October 2017

WHO aims to eradicate cholera disease by 2030

 
 
The World Health Organization WHO has expressed its hope of reducing global infectious disease infections and reducing the number of deaths caused by the disease by 90 percent by 2030.
Krankenhaus von Bukavu RD Congo Cholera Africa.It has been said by the director responsible for emergency issues in the organization. Peter Salama was speaking to journalists in Geneva.
The director said the agency could take urgent action and send more vaccines to combat the significant increase in infectious disease in Yemen this year.

Dr. Peter Salama has already expressed his hope that, "we are about to reach the goal," with regard to the preventable disease, caused by microbes that have infected 700,000 people and causing more than 2,000 deaths this year.
The goal is one of WHO's major goals to eliminate the disease or significantly reduce the disease. Such efforts are already available for the disease, malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS. Currently, it is only a neurological disease that has already been eliminated in the face of the world.Jemen Cholera (Picture alliance / Photoshot / M Mohammed)
A cholera sick in Yemen
India and the countries in the sub-Saharan Africa face the long-term challenges of combating cholera.
Areas that develop the disease regularly
Locations like the war-tacked Yemen, or Bangladesh, which have received more than 500,000 Muslims from Rohingya from Mnyanmar, are experiencing an unpredictable situation. The plan for the world is aimed at combating epidemics that occur frequently, where every year at the same time, the disease rises. The plan aims to improve water hygiene and sanitation services, using alcohol vaccines.
The strategy can help eliminate cholera in 20 affected countries by 2030, according to WHO. India has been severely affected by over 675,000 cases annually, according to WaterAid.
It also has a large number of people living without being able to get clean water, and safely, and many live without proper toilets.
Urban areas have dirty water that can enter into water sources and cause diseases in Mozambique
Ethiopia and Nigeria, which follow in second and third positions, also have a second and third highest number of people living in clean water.
Other nations in the top ten countries include Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Bangladesh, Uganda and Mozambique.

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