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Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in urban contexts has been identified by the Global WASH Learning Project as a priorit
Inadequate sanitation, inadequate water supplies and poor hygiene are critical determinants for survival of victims of natural disas
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
Tropical Storm Jeanne struck Haiti in September 2004, causing widespread flooding which contaminated water sources, displaced thousa
This briefing paper is aimed at all those involved in facilitating hygiene improvement in an acute.
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan