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Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
In a disaster context, where risk for diarrhoeal disease is elevated, personal hygiene, i.e.
For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways
Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m