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Exploring changes in open defecation prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa based on national level indices

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About 215 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still defecate in fields, forests or out in the open, a practice that puts people and especially children at risk of diarrheal diseases. Public health experts are calling for an end to such practices by the year 2015 in order to protect the public health.

Evaluating the potential of microfinance for sanitation in India, 2013.

<Reliably assessing the cost of different sanitation solutions is a key urban planning challenge.

This issue contains recent studies and resources on several WASH-related diseases: cholera, dengue, diarrhea, leptospirosis, neglected tropical diseases, malnutrition, and typhoid. Included are a just-published UNICEF cholera toolkit, an updated review of WASH-related diseases from DfID, typhoid case studies from Bangladesh and Fiji, and other resources.