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Introduction Increasing handwashing with soap (HWWS) among older children in emergency settings can
Safe and widely accessible water is critical for people's health.
Background: Handwashing with soap is critical for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and outbreak related diseases, including int
Introduction: The major aim of hand washing promotion programs is to persuade people to change their behaviour to reduce high-risk h
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Handwashing with soap is widely recognized as a key strategy for reducing the transmission of disease, particularly in emergency con
Background. Children in humanitarian situations are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as diar- rhoea.
MSF has intervened recently in several contexts where large-scale surface water treatment has been a significant feature of the WatS
In humanitarian emergency settings there is need for low cost and rapidly deployable interventions to protect vulnerable children, i
The reliance on chlorination in humanitarian operations has raised concerns among practitioners about possible health risks associat