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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
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
Where large groups of people are displaced either by conflict or by natural disaster and they are likely to stay in a location for p
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
The current Sphere guideline for water chlorination in humanitarian emergencies fails to reliably ensure household water safety in r
Household spraying is a commonly implemented, yet an under-researched, cholera response intervention where a response team sprays su
MSF has intervened recently in several contexts where large-scale surface water treatment has been a significant feature of the WatS
The emergence, transmission and distribution of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are determined by the pathogens, the vectors, the envir