India continues to be the country with the highest number of people (597 million people) practising open defecation. Where women must defecate in the open, they run the risk of sexual assault or rape.

These women and girls may be reluctant to break ... “because a village can’t become open defecation free if different sections aren’t ODF. The entire community is in it together.” ...

To discourage open defecation, senior health professionals have called on the state and local governments to make public toilets usage free of charge for the populace. They noted that the required ...

"I am moved by the fact that a child dies every 2 and a half minutes from diseases linked to open defecation ... such as persons with disabilities and women, who are more exposed to sexual ...

The Federal Government is to introduce a National Performance Scorecard as a ranking system to measure and compare states’ efforts towards achieving Open Defecation Free Nigeria by the year 2030.

some public health physicians doubt the country’s ability to achieve open defecation-free status by 2030. In exclusive interviews with PUNCH Healthwise, the experts noted that with a quarter of ...

There would be reduced rape because women or girls that enter the bush ... “We have been able to achieve 126 open defecation-free LGAs in the country and we are working hard to ensure more ...

“As women here, we lacked knowledge on the ... Mlotshwa said the government wanted the country to achieve the open defecation-free status by the end of 2025. “These (water, sanitation and ...