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Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Globally, an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.
Background: Refugees are at high risk for communicable diseases due to overcrowding and poor water, sanitation,
Tropical Storm Jeanne struck Haiti in September 2004, causing widespread flooding which contaminated water sources, displaced thousa