{"id":96374,"date":"2023-09-29T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:27:28","slug":"who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera","title":{"rendered":"WHO releases $16m to tackle cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released 16 million dollars from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies to tackle cholera.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of WHO, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said this during an online news conference.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the real solution to cholera lies in ensuring everyone has access to safe water and sanitation, which is an internationally recognized human right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, in the previous week, WHO published new data showing that cases reported in 2022 were more than double those in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the preliminary data for 2023 suggested was likely to be even worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, 28 countries have reported cases in 2023 compared with 16 during the same period in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe countries with the most concerning outbreaks right now are Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSignificant 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,\u201d Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the worst affected countries and communities are poor, without access to safe drinking water or toilets.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>On COVID-19, Ghebreyesus said that as the northern hemisphere winter approaches, the organisation continues to see concerning trends.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>WHO boss said that meanwhile, vaccination levels among the most at-risk groups remained worryingly low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo-thirds of the world\u2019s population has received a complete primary series, but only one-third has received an additional, or \u201cbooster\u201d dose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 may no longer be the acute crisis it was two years ago, but that does not mean we can ignore it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, countries invested so much in building their systems to respond to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>He urged countries to sustain those systems, to ensure people can be protected, tested and treated for COVID-19 and other infectious threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means sustaining systems for collaborative surveillance, community protection, safe and scalable care, access to countermeasures and coordination,\u201d he said.(NAN).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released 16 million dollars from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies to tackle cholera. The Director-General of WHO, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said this during an online news conference. Ghebreyesus said that the organisation was providing essential supplies, coordinating the on the ground response with partners, supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":96373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,3564,254,728],"class_list":["post-96374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-cholera","tag-nigeria","tag-who"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WHO releases $16m to tackle cholera - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released 16 million dollars from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies to tac ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WHO releases $16m to tackle cholera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released 16 million dollars from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies to tac ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-29T09:34:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-29T12:27:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/sm_1695974132.452096.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"674\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"WHO releases $16m to tackle cholera\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-29T09:34:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-29T12:27:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera\"},\"wordCount\":442,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/sm_1695974132.452096.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Cholera\",\"Nigeria\",\"WHO\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/who-releases-16m-to-tackle-cholera\",\"name\":\"WHO releases $16m to tackle cholera - 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