Sewage leaks, rundown communal outdoor toilets and breakdowns in water systems are causing public health disasters across Africa.
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The struggle with open defecation is a silent emergency, undermining the continent’s efforts towards sustainable development goals.
In the rush to become ‘open defecation free’, cities are taking quick fixes that are making matters worse.
Research shows that targeting poor communities will go a long way in solving the country’s open defecation issues.
Cultural, social and environmental factors all matter if India wants to succeed in its goal to boost sanitation.
For an emerging country like India, it is easier to take part in exploratory missions to Mars than to tackle its sanitation challenge.
While everyone needs access to proper sanitation to stay healthy, for girls and women it is also an issue of safety and equal participation in society.
More than two billion people lack access to decent sanitation. Innovative sanitation technologies can bring toilets into the 21st century with benefits for the developing and developed world.
Any analysis worth its salt of what it means to be poor will include indicators explicitly linked to health – nutrition, for example, or mortality rates. But in reality, the many different aspects of poverty…
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