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Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Dispensers are a source-based water quality intervention with promising uptake results in development contexts.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Communicable diseases are of particular concern in conflict and disaster-affected populations that reside in camp settings.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.