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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Somali Region of Ethiopia has been affected by drought for several years.
In August 2015, an outbreak of cholera was reported in Tanzania.
Fragility has become the reality in several countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
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.
As an alternative, CLTS can appear fundamentally mismatched with post-emergency and fragile states contexts: the core
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.
The international response to Haiti’s ongoing cholera outbreak has been multifaceted, including health education efforts by communit