Ethiopia: Hadiya Requires Urgent to Measles Outbreak
While the tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia have been the main attention grabber of late, there is a silent killer disease making its way across Central Ethiopia that needs to be dealt with immediately. Development Diaries reports that a measles outbreak in the Hadiya zone of Central Ethiopia has so far killed 22 children within […]
Sudan: MSF Warns of Measles Outbreak in Camps
Médecins Sans Frontière (MSF) has said that at least 13 children have died from suspected measles complications in displacement camps in Sudan’s White Nile State as fighting between the country’s warring factions continues. Development Diaries reports that MSF, in a series of tweets, raised the alarm of a possible health crisis in displacement camps as […]
Measles: WHO Reveals 207,500 People Killed in 2019
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, says the organisation is determined to support countries in the fight against measles. The WHO chief made this known following a report that global measles deaths increased by 50 percent from 2016 to 2019, claiming over 207,500 lives in 2019. Development Diaries understands that WHO cited figures from […]