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Monitoring water, sanitation, and hygiene programs in cholera outbreaks is critical to improve humanitarian response.
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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
Decision Making and the Use of Guidance on Sanitation Systems and Faecal Sludge Management in the First Phase of Rapid-Onset Emergen
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret