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Household members of diarrhea patients are at higher risk of developing diarrheal diseases (>100 times for cholera) than the gene
Dispensers are a source-based water quality intervention with promising uptake results in development contexts.
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.