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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
In 2019, 30,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to conflict, persecution, and natural disaster each day.
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control.
Despite documented health benefits of household water treatment and storage (HWTS), achieving sustained use remains challenging.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
About a million Rohingyas have fled due to the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh.
Case-area targeted interventions (CATIs) against cholera are conducted by rapid response teams, and may include various activities l
In August 2015, an outbreak of cholera was reported in Tanzania.
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.