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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Nov 25, 2010 The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic rose to 1,523 Thursday, up from 1,415 over two days, officials said. The outbreak has sent 27,933 people into hospitals for treatment in just over a month. To date, 140 have died of the virulent diarrheal disease in the destroyed capital of Port-au-Prince, where more than one million people are living in sprawling tent cities since a January earthquake. Officials fear the disease could spread quickly there because residents have little access to proper sanitation.
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New AIDS cases fall by one fifth in a decade: UNGeneva (AFP) Nov 23, 2010 The number of new cases of HIV/AIDS has dropped by about one-fifth over the past decade but millions of people are still missing out on major progress in prevention and treatment, the UN said Tuesday. In 2009, 2.6 million people contracted the HIV virus that causes AIDS, down 19 percent from the 3.1 million recorded in 2001, said UNAIDS, the UN agency spearheading the international campaign ... read more |
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