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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
There is a new shift in political interest in sanitation in India with the newly launched Swacha Bharat Abhiyan on 2 October 2014.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m