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Background: Handwashing with soap is critical for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and outbreak related diseases, including int
Household members of diarrhea patients are at higher risk of developing diarrheal diseases (>100 times for cholera) than the gene
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control.
Supplying safe drinking water in humanitarian emergencies is critical, and source water chlorination is a commonly implemented inter
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index pa
Dispensers are a source-based water quality intervention with promising uptake results in development contexts.
In a disaster context, where risk for diarrhoeal disease is elevated, personal hygiene, i.e.
For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways