The population living in those urban slums has minimal access to basic hygiene and sanitation services and limited medical infrastructure.
The organization is working with the government to ensure that basic water, sanitation and hygiene services are repaired to prevent major disease outbreaks.
"The vast majority are hidden away in people's houses, making it exceptionally difficult for the humanitarian community to reach them with food, clean water, basic hygiene items and medical services.
UNICEF is particularly concerned with the risk of water-borne diseases and working with the Government to ensure that basic water, sanitation and hygiene services are repaired to prevent major health outbreaks.
Other systems have responded to similar circumstances by establishing both 'low threshold' health and social care offers to marginalized drug users that provide services explicitly and most essentially desired by the target populations (e.g., basic food, shelter and hygiene services, flexible opening hours, social and educational supports, health and treatment care referrals etc. [ 54, 75- 77]).
In this evaluation, the HWB performed well during the early phases of the emergency (first three months) when the risk of disease transmission is usually highest and basic water, sanitation and hygiene services are often insufficient; however, longer term outcomes are unclear.
Every day, around 1,400 mothers will lose a child to this disease, brought about because of a lack of access to basic sanitation, clean water and hygiene services.
It offers support for basic logistics, including sanitation and hygiene services, water-purification materials and water-storage facilities – all of which can go a long way toward alleviating the burden of cholera.
People should have access to basic hygiene and basic medical supplies, services.
Apart from shelter, the camp provides basic necessities, with UNICEF being a major supporter of water, sanitation and hygiene services, as well as materials such as buckets, jerry cans and family hygiene kits.
