An official report has contradicted Indian government claims that rural areas of the country are completely free from the practice of open defecation. The National Statistical Office (NSO ...

A new UNICEF report that Nigeria requires approximately 20 million toilets to eliminate open defecation indicates that Africa’s most populous country is off the rails concerning achieving ...

Sometimes I take it away and burn it.” Moolchand sees himself as defending a hard-won honor: The district has declared his village “open defecation free.” “People get angry and shout at me ...

Canada has been working with UNICEF since 2012 to eradicate open defecation in the African country. The reports mentioned that the Canadian Government gave about $850,000 to fund one of Ghana's ...

Following a bowel movement, you might feel relieved, satisfied, or even a sense of relaxation. For some people, however, ...

Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps have arrested nine individuals caught engaging in open defecation in the Berger area of the state. The state’s Commissioner for ...

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The Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation has expressed deep concern over the ongoing practice of open defecation in Nigeria. According to the 2021 WASHNORM reports, over 47 million ...

Nigeria is facing significant health and economic challenges due to the persistent issue of open defecation, with an estimated £1.5 billion lost annually due to related health issues and reduced ...

Open defecation Eliminating open defecation, a practice strongly associated with poverty and exclusion, is critical to accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG ...

Ado-Ekiti—The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has partnered with journalists, government officials and other relevant stakeholders to end open defecation and eliminate Neglected ...

Not so many decades ago, rural open defecation rates would have been high in essentially every country,” write Diane Coffey and Dean Spears. “India stands alone today not because it changed, but ...