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Jan 04, 2012
Reposted with permission of PATH In 2003, vaccines against rotavirus were poised to reach the global market, but surprisingly few people knew the virus' name, let alone that it was the leading cause of severe diarrheal disease. “We've never heard
Dec 22, 2011
  A new year begins in just a few days! But before we plunge ahead into 2012, we'd like to take a look back at the most popular blogs of 2011, determined by you, our readers.  
Dec 19, 2011
  A mutual friend introduced us at a karaoke girls' night in party, “You guys are both writers.”   Heidi was writing a screenplay, Jane was writing a family memoir. 
Dec 07, 2011
A young inpatient recovers from severe diarrhea, a bandage on his small hand the remnant of emergency IV rehydration. By the second open-air hospital, I knew better than to look for water fountains. The sealed plastic  bottles conspicuously tucked
Dec 01, 2011
A person living with HIV/AIDS uses a tippy tap. You may think that water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is superfluous when addressing the needs of people living with HIV, but actually it is a critically important focus that has only recently
Nov 18, 2011
Women producing latrine slabs in Bangladesh. Photo credit: WaterAid / Abir Abdullah
Nov 16, 2011
  Jeremy Chambers models Clean the World's prize for poo-etic brilliance.     How does it feel to be a Poo Haiku champion? We already know that our winners have a way with words, so we'll let them do the talking.   Matt Gomez, Clean the World
Nov 09, 2011
  The best meeting for us at defeatDD last week? Our poo haiku judging session, of course!   We gathered around a table with our marked-up lists of over 100 poo haikus: an impressive total (30 was our original target number) with even more