{"id":282957,"date":"2019-08-01T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEONLp4z1ZGJtWKZBQF9RcwgqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:28:35","slug":"ethiopia-joins-global-drive-end-cholera-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/282957","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia joins the global drive to end cholera by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia aligned itself in July 2019 with the World Health Organization's global roadmap to end cholera as a public-health threat by 2030, WHO said in a briefing hosted in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"size-large wp-image-837805\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hand-wash-turmi-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hand washing in Turmi, southern Ethiopia, July 2014\" \/><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Hand washing in Turmi, southern Ethiopia, July 2014 (Rod Waddington \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) [file photo]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Almost a third of Ethiopians then lacked adequate water supplies, WHO noted. State Minister of Health Lia Tadesse told ministries, regional health bureaus, partners and donors that ending outbreaks needed multi-sector work and infrastructure investment, tied to Ethiopia's National Action Plan for Health Security.<\/p>\n<p>The Ending Cholera: A Global Roadmap to 2030 call to action asks countries to cut cholera deaths by 90 percent through better water, sanitation and hygiene, oral cholera vaccine where needed, and stronger surveillance and case management.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates were urged to build an evidence-based national elimination strategy. WHO framed cholera control as a development task that reaches beyond the health ministry alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/ethiopia-joins-global-efforts-end-cholera-2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO \/ ReliefWeb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia aligned itself in July 2019 with the World Health Organization&#8217;s global roadmap to end cholera as a public-health threat by 2030, WHO said in a briefing hosted in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":837805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hand-wash-turmi-ethiopia.jpg?fit=870%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1bBP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837815,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282957\/revisions\/837815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}