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Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Cholera has been eliminated as a public health problem in high-income countries that have implemented sanitation system separating t
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.