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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
After the 2015 earthquake in Nepal that killed approximately 9,000 people, the country faced an increased risk of cholera outbreaks
Theories and strategies of social mobilization, capacity building, mass and interpersonal communication, as well as risk communicati
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.