Sentence examples for for cholera response from inspiring English sources
Funding is drying up for cholera response.
Building a nationwide water and sanitation infrastructure would cost $1.6 billion, Pedro Medrano Rojas, the new U.N. senior coordinator for cholera response in Haiti, told me.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 6 December 2010 - The Ministry of Health MSPPP) with technical support from UNICEF has launched the Strategic Nutrition Framework for Cholera Response in Haiti.
2 The start of the cholera outbreak in October 2010 led to additional funding specifically for cholera response efforts taking place around the country.
Although measures for cholera response can help contain the spread of the disease and reduce the number of fatalities, it would be much more effective if the underlying cause of this 'poor man's disease' is tackled.
Despite interventions in affected areas of the Republic of the Congo, the threat from across the river remains, so the Central Emergency Response Fund has committed US$4.4 million to UNICEF and US$4.6 million to WHO for cholera response in DRC.
23 The target was surpassed due to the fact that more funds were received than requested for the cholera response in Humanitarian Action for children 2015 (120 per cent funded), which enabled the expansion of support based on the needs informed by the surveillance system.
The mortality rate was below, better than, the acceptable rate for a cholera response.
Pedro Medrano, an assistant UN secretary general and the man responsible for coordinating the organisation's cholera response, admits that such issues pose a challenge to its operations in Haiti.
The funds raised under this appeal will enable the UN children's fund to scale up its cholera response, provide incentives for teachers to return to work, procure essential medicines for hospitals and importantly, expand its role in the provision of vital supplies and logistics functions necessary to get the social services back on track.
Health educational activities for cholera, in response to the priority arising from outbreaks making heavy demands on the health system in Zanzibar, are more extensive than for shigellosis.
