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Emergency responses in humanitarian contexts require rapid set-up of water supply.
Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Somali Region of Ethiopia has been affected by drought for several years.
In August 2015, an outbreak of cholera was reported in Tanzania.
On May 2, 2009 an outbreak of typhoid fever began in rural villages along the Malawi-Mozambique border resulting in 748 illnesses an
Globally, an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.
Background: Refugees are at high risk for communicable diseases due to overcrowding and poor water, sanitation,
Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for nearly 30% of deaths among children displaced by humanitarian emergencies.
Dispensers are a source-based water quality intervention with promising uptake results in development contexts.