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Pubescent girls face unique emotional barriers to returning to school after a disaster concerning water, sanitation and hygiene (WAS
Household members of diarrhea patients are at higher risk of developing diarrheal diseases (>100 times for cholera) than the gene
Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
This briefing paper presents a case study of a Peepoo implementation in first phase humanitarian response.
Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages.
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved