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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
This discussion paper summarizes the results and implications of a study commissioned by the World Bank to conduct
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
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.