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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for nearly 30% of deaths among children displaced by humanitarian emergencies.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.