Rapports

Contents 385 Preventive therapy against tuberculosis in people living with HIV – Policy statement 398 Influenza 399 Health conditions, East Timor 399 Cholera, Africa – update 399 Outbreak news 400 Diseases subject to the Regulations Sommaire 385 Traitement préventif de la tuberculose chez les…

Geneva, 18 November 1999 Drought in Kenya has resulted in severe shortages of food, pasture and water, especially in the north-western Turkana region where between 50 - 100 people have died due to starvation. Some 36,000 children are affected by…

NAIROBI, 11 November (IRIN) - Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi this week called on thousands of displaced people in the country's Rift Valley province to return to their homes and continue with their normal lives, a move that has…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA)- Kenya has formally refused to allow into its territory thousands of people the UN High Commissioner for Refugees tried to bring in from Ethiopia last week. The refugees who include men, women and children are currently stranded…

NAIROBI (Nov. 4) XINHUA - More than 3,200 Kenyan refugees returning home from Ethiopia have been stranded at the Moyale border post for two days, the Daily Nation newspaper reported Thursday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the…

Harvesting of the 1999 main "long rains" cereal crops is nearing completion in the main growing areas of the Rift Valley. Significant output reductions are reported for the Eastern, Central, Western and Nyanza Provinces due to drought, inadequate agricultural input…

Consultancy Report The FEWS (Famine Early Warning System) project for the Greater Horn of Africa recently commissioned a review on food aid targeting* in East Africa with the aim of improving the targeting of emergency food aid in response to…

NAIROBI, 29 October (IRIN) - Recent media reports say over one million people in Kenya are currently affected by drought-related hunger, due to poor rains, crop failure and poverty. The Kenyan government has yet to release a statement, but an…

NAIROBI (Oct. 26) XINHUA - The districts in Kenya facing famine have risen to 21, "East African Standard" newspaper reported Tuesday. The affected districts are scattered in five provinces, mainly in Rift Valley and Eastern provinces. The shortage of rains has…

NAIROBI, 1 October (IRIN) - Over 87,000 reported AIDS cases in Kenya in the past five years are "only the tip of the pyramid" and the estimated number of Kenyans with AIDS is over 700,000, according to a new…