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Pubescent girls face unique emotional barriers to returning to school after a disaster concerning water, sanitation and hygiene (WAS
The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to contribute to widespread food insecurity and malnutrition and have long-term
The most important information concerning WASH and the COVID-19 virus is summarized here.
This report is the first installment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by the USAID Office of U.S.
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
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
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.