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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation facilities to communities is a key part of Save the Children’s work in emergenci
Appropriate and adequate sanitation solutions are crucial for the protection of human and environmental health in emergencies.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.