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A cholera outbreak at Elubo in the Jomoro district of the Western Region, since last Tuesday has claimed the lives of two persons, with 33 others battling for their lives.

The United Nations humanitarian agency has warned of cholera outbreak in the Somali capital, Mogadishu and south central Somalia due to unhygienic living conditions, Press TV reports.

STAMFORD, Conn., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AmeriCares and icddr,b have launched a new cholera-fighting program in the Horn of Africa, where recent rains have increased fears of large-scale outbreaks. The two organizations began by training 50 doctors and nurses in cholera prevention and treatment this week. The health professionals -- half in Mogadishu, Somalia, and half in Dadaab ...

BEHIND THE (PRISON) WALLS I've often had to document Oxfam's hygiene promotion activities in communities, schools, markets and other public places. But never a prison....

The Jomoro District Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has appealed passionately to government, benevolent societies and philanthropists to help acquire the necessary drugs to deal with the outbreak of cholera at Elubo area.

Cholera is one of the unpleasant diseases many Ghanaians today, wouldn’t want to come across, yet our surroundings still remains dirty. No one would want to be infected by this dreadful disease that has become a pandemic in this country in 2011.

[Accra Mail] The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 3-5 million cholera cases occur every year, leading to 100,000 to 120,000 deaths. In spite of its huge human impact, cholera is still being neglected.

Campaign underway in Haiti

Baseball in the Time of Cholera started out as a film about Haiti's first little league team but soon took on international importance as a cholera epidemic infected over 500,000 Haitian people.