Brussels, 21/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is earmarking €1.5 million in emergency humanitarian aid to Angola where there have been outbreaks of cholera in six provinces of the country (13,821 cases since 13 February), causing over 550 deaths over the past two months. The funds, taken from the budget of ECHO, the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office, will finance supplies of clean water to families and hospitals, with preventive distribution of rehydration salts, Ringer's lactate medicine and other treatment, as well as campaigns to heighten public awareness and hygiene education. The aid will be distributed though ECHO's partner humanitarian organisations on the ground: Médecins du Monde, Médecins sans frontiers, UN agencies such as UNICEF and WHO.