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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
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.
This document has been prepared to share the 10-year experience, from 2010 to 2020, that UNICEF staff and their partners have accumu
Despite documented health benefits of household water treatment and storage (HWTS), achieving sustained use remains challenging.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Case-area targeted interventions (CATIs) against cholera are conducted by rapid response teams, and may include various activities l
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.