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Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
The aims of this study are to identify sanitation options for infants and young children less than five years old (IYCU5) in emergen
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages.
This factsheet addresses current developments, challenges, gaps and solutions in the planning and implementation fo sustainable sani
After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, thousands of agencies, organizations, and individual people tried to find ways to help the pe
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