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Background: Handwashing with soap is critical for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and outbreak related diseases, including int
The current Sphere guideline for water chlorination in humanitarian emergencies fails to reliably ensure household water safety in r
Background. Children in humanitarian situations are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as diar- rhoea.
MSF has intervened recently in several contexts where large-scale surface water treatment has been a significant feature of the WatS
In humanitarian emergency settings there is need for low cost and rapidly deployable interventions to protect vulnerable children, i
The reliance on chlorination in humanitarian operations has raised concerns among practitioners about possible health risks associat
Background. Diarrhoeal diseases are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in humanitarian crises.
In addition to the dire medical needs resulting from the 2010 Haiti earthquake, over 1.5 million people were left without access to
In most of the emergency project, we just provided facilities to help people in need to have some living environment.
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of