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Monitoring water, sanitation, and hygiene programs in cholera outbreaks is critical to improve humanitarian response.
The most important information concerning WASH and the COVID-19 virus is summarized here.
Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
Decision Making and the Use of Guidance on Sanitation Systems and Faecal Sludge Management in the First Phase of Rapid-Onset Emergen
Mount Sinabung erupted in September 2013, causing the mass evacuation of more than 30,000 people.
After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, thousands of agencies, organizations, and individual people tried to find ways to help the pe
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan