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After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
The response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 highlighted the use of rented portable toilets in emergency context.
Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
Safe excreta disposal is a top priority in an emergency, but one that takes time and extensive resources to implement.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
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