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Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Handwashing practices prove to be an effective and easy way of ensuring the health of populations affected by emergencies and humani
The provision of safe water in adequate quantities is a basic necessity in emergencies to prevent the transmission of infectious dis
This article presents the experience of using the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in a recent programme in Somalia an
In order to ensure maximum consumer benefits (e.g.
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan