Africa: Cholera – A Political Challenge that Hits Africa Hardest

Cholera – A Political Challenge that Hits Africa Hardest

By Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Cholera is not fundamentally a medical challenge, it’s political. The last outbreak of cholera in the United Kingdom was in 1866; the United States has not had an outbreak since 1911.

And yet today, outbreaks of cholera are raging in 32 countries, with more than 6800 deaths reported so far this year – already exceeding last year’s toll of 6000. And those deaths were a 50 percent increase…