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

"I am moved by the fact that a child dies every 2 and a half minutes from diseases linked to open defecation. Those are silent deaths – not reported on in the media, not the subject of public ...

A recent study spanning India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania found that sanitisation programmes designed to eliminate open defecation significantly improved child health and height.

With over 48 million Nigerians still practising open defecation and a nationwide shortage of toilets, some public health physicians doubt the country’s ability to achieve open defecation-free status ...

Prof. Joseph Utsev, has urged state governments to take decisive measures against open defecation by developing clear, time-bound action plans that align with the revised Clean Nigeria Campaign ...

Worried about intractable open defecation, the Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the state’s Ministry of Environment and Water Resources to fully enforce environmental laws against it and ...

He also encouraged the states including the FCT yet to attain the open defecation free status to take deliberate measures while supporting Nigeria to attain upon defecation-free status ...

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 ...

The Yobe State government has officially declared Machina, Bade, and Fune local government areas as open defecation-free. Liman Baba, the General Manager of the State Rural Water Supply and ...