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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
Cholera has been eliminated as a public health problem in high-income countries that have implemented sanitation system separating t
The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely damaged over 4000 water and sanitation schemes in northern Pakistan.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r