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The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index pa
Background: Cholera remains a serious public health threat in Asia, Africa and in parts of the Americas.
This paper considers the damage to household toilets in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake through the lens of good performa
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
Global attention on improving the integration of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) into humanitarian response is growing.
Theories and strategies of social mobilization, capacity building, mass and interpersonal communication, as well as risk communicati
Over the last 15 years there has been increasing attention to adolescent girls' and women's menstrual hygiene management (MHM) needs
Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions can interrupt diarrhoeal disease transmission and reduce the burden of morbidity and mo
Household water treatment (HWTS) methods, such as boiling or chlorination, have long been recommended in emergencies.
As recent emergencies have shown, there are still significant challenges in the timely provision of safe sanitation in natural disas