Environmental Hygiene

Environmental hygiene is critical to ensure a safe local environment for disaster-affected populations. These projects could include vector control activities, like rubbish collection and disposal, site improvements and drainage, or community chlorine spraying during disease outbreaks.
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Diarrhoeal disease outbreaks associated with sanitation provision failures in refugee camps worldwide: a literature review

The objective of this review is to identify sanitation failures that have contributed to the occurrence of diarrhoeal disease outbreaks among displaced populations living in camps.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: University of London    Author(s): Burnet_E., Rudge_J.

WASH activities at two Ebola treatment units in Sierra Leone

Purpose. The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was the largest in history. Starting in September 2014, International Medical Corps (IMC) operated five Ebola treatment units (ETUs) in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Publication year: 2018    Reporting Agency: International Medical Corps    Author(s): Mallow_M., Gary_L., Jeng_T., Bongomin_B., Aschkenasy_M., Wallis_P., Cranmer_H., Debasu_E., Levine_A.

Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia:The View from Below

Background. The West African Ebola epidemic has demonstrated that the existing range of medical and epidemiological responses to emerging disease outbreaks is insufficient, especially in post-conflict contexts with exceedingly poor healthcare infrastructures.

Publication year: 2015    Reporting Agency: University of Florida    Author(s): Abramowitz_S., McLean_K., McKune_S., Bardosh_K., Fallah_M., Monger_J., Tehoungue_K., Omidian_P.

Social Science in Epidemics: Cholera lessons learned

This report is the first installment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Direct Assistance (OFDA).

Publication year: 2018    Reporting Agency: USAID_OFDA    Author(s): Ripoll_S., Wilkinson_A.

Urban WASH Lessons Learned from Post-Earthquake Response in Haiti

Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities. This paper examines the lessons learned from the WASH response to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010.

Publication year: 2011    Reporting Agency: Oxfam GB    Author(s): Forster_T.