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Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
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