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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.
Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for nearly 30% of deaths among children displaced by humanitarian emergencies.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of
There is currently limited public information available concerning methods for the selection of appropriate water trea
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.