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On May 2, 2009 an outbreak of typhoid fever began in rural villages along the Malawi-Mozambique border resulting in 748 illnesses an
There is a significant gap in empirical evidence on the menstrual hygiene management (MHM) challenges faced by adolescent girls and
The world is witnessing the highest levels of forced human displacement on record, leading to people being housed in urban centres a
The provision of safe water in adequate quantities is a basic necessity in emergencies to prevent the transmission of infectious dis
In this research, three faecal sludge sanitizing methods—lactic acid fermentation, urea treatment and lime treatment—were studied fo
This article presents the experience of using the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in a recent programme in Somalia an
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina
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