The UN called Wednesday for an end to defecation in the open, with fears growing that it has helped spread the deadly Ebola virus ravaging west Africa. Half the population of Liberia, the country ...

As a result of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients may have a partial or complete loss of the sensations of defecation. To compensate this impairment, nurses initiate bowel management programs.

THE Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima had on the 2024 World Toilet Day launched the revised Clean Nigeria Campaign, CNC, Strategic Plan to eradicate open defecation by 2030, with nearly 48 ...

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Residents of Chorkor, a coastal community in Accra, are grappling with the challenges of open defecation, posing significant health risks to the community. The lack of access to sanitary facilities ...

The open defecation invites pigs from the neighbouring slums, making hospital all the more inhospitable. A large number of patients from Chatra and Koderma districts of Jharkhand visit ANMMCH on a ...

In Lagos, where 70 per cent of residents lack safely managed sanitation and open defecation continues to fuel outbreaks of cholera and typhoid, a single public toilet can function as a frontline ...