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Menstruation and menstrual hygiene management (MHM) are issues that have long been shrouded in shame and silence.
Humanitarian agencies strive to provide sanitation facilities which are safe, accessible and afford users privacy and dignity.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
A number of organizations engaged in tanker trucks to deliver water to populations affected by the 2005 tsunami in Indonesia.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.