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The most important information concerning WASH and the COVID-19 virus is summarized here.
In September 2016, Médecins Sans Frontières responded to a hepatitis E (HEV) outbreak in Chad by implementing water treatment and hy
Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for nearly 30% of deaths among children displaced by humanitarian emergencies.
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.
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.