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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
Appropriate and adequate sanitation solutions are crucial for the protection of human and environmental health in emergencies.
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
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.