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Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
In September 2016, Médecins Sans Frontières responded to a hepatitis E (HEV) outbreak in Chad by implementing water treatment and hy
Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions can interrupt diarrhoeal disease transmission and reduce the burden of morbidity and mo
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.