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Monitoring water, sanitation, and hygiene programs in cholera outbreaks is critical to improve humanitarian response.
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
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
This discussion paper summarizes the results and implications of a study commissioned by the World Bank to conduct
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.