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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
In a disaster context, where risk for diarrhoeal disease is elevated, personal hygiene, i.e.
For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret