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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
Mount Sinabung erupted in September 2013, causing the mass evacuation of more than 30,000 people.
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.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina