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The most important information concerning WASH and the COVID-19 virus is summarized here.
The rapid influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has led to the formation of huge camps, built on difficult terra
Women and adolescent girls in disaster-prone and fragile contexts face many challenges.
Purpose. The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was the largest in history.
Humanitarian agencies strive to provide sanitation facilities which are safe, accessible and afford users privacy and dignity.
Camps are places of refuge for people fleeing conflict and disaster, but they can be dangerous, especially for women and girls.
Solid waste and faecal sludge management in situations of rapid mass displacement are important to public health an
Background: Cholera remains a serious public health threat in Asia, Africa and in parts of the Americas.
Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan