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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control.
The rapid influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has led to the formation of huge camps, built on difficult terra
Camps are places of refuge for people fleeing conflict and disaster, but they can be dangerous, especially for women and girls.
The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index pa
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret