World leaders are meeting in London today to discuss the deepening humanitarian situation in Yemen. Over half the population does not have access to clean water and Sana'a is predicted to be the first capital city in the world to run out of water. In the village of Al Katfah, in Northern Yemen, Saeedah, 35, and her family are struggling to secure enough water to meet their everyday needs.
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Oxfam is always looking at new ways to improve sanitation in its programmes and the Tiger Worm Toilet is just one novel method that is currently being trialled. With an estimated 2.6 billion people still without access to adequate sanitation, it's vital that we keeping looking for better, and more sustainable, ways of doing things.
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On World AIDS Day, Mohga Kamal-Yanni outlines the four main challenges facing all countries that are dealing with HIV and AIDS.
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Here's an infographic from the king of infographics, David McCandless, showing just what a difference treatment can make for people living with AIDS. 85% of people die without treatment - compared to 20% with treatment.
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Good investment in community healthcare is needed to fight malaria, argues Ian Sullivan, rather than putting people's health in the hands of untrained shopkeepers.
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On the eve of The International Day for Disaster Reduction, Oxfam's Global Humanitarian Gender Adviser Tess Dico Young reports on a project that enabled women from marginalised Dalit communities to lead sanitation and disaster risk reduction activities in Darchula Distruct, Western Region, Nepal.
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Oxfam's Cholera Outbreak Guidelines were developed as an internal resource, but today we are sharing them externally in order to seek input from the international humanitarian community. We hope that this feedback will inform later editions in order to develop a powerful resource for anyone looking to prepare for, prevent and control a cholera outbreak. Here, one of the authors of the Guideline, Bibi Lamond, explains
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Empty pharmacy and hospital shelves are so common in Malawi that a phrase has been coined to describe them: 'stock-outs'. However, few would have expected a president to be affected, until the recent death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. Here Shenard Mazengera calls for improved transparency, civil society engagement and donor support to help fight the battle for access to medicines for all.
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Nearly 800 million people lack access to water and 2.6 billion to sanitation. Addressing the disparity in water and sanitation coverage is crucial to Oxfam's work, whether in humanitarian response or long term development.
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Oxfam is working with US engineers to develop a pioneering desalination solution in order to prive safe drinking water in rural Kenya. Brian McSorley reports on the pilot, in the last of his blog posts for World Water Week.
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