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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Protracted armed conflicts in the Middle East and Africa are heavily impacting the infrastructure of basic services such as water, e
Given the increasing frequency and duration of humanitarian emergencies worldwide, there is a need to identify a greater range of ef
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control.
This document has been prepared to share the 10-year experience, from 2010 to 2020, that UNICEF staff and their partners have accumu
Water trucking is a commonly implemented, but severely under-researched, drinking water supply intervention in humanitarian response
Where large groups of people are displaced either by conflict or by natural disaster and they are likely to stay in a location for p
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
The key weaknesses identified in water infrastructure systems in urban and peri-urban areas in FCAS are:
The current Sphere guideline for water chlorination in humanitarian emergencies fails to reliably ensure household water safety in r