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What It Means When Your Body Feels Weak After Pooping
Following a bowel movement, you might feel relieved, satisfied, or even a sense of relaxation. For some people, however, ...
The Punch Newspapers5d
The scourge of open defecation
A new UNICEF report that Nigeria requires approximately 20 million toilets to eliminate open defecation indicates that Africa’s most populous country is off the rails concerning achieving ...
National Geographic news1y
Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors. Here’s Why.
Sometimes I take it away and burn it.” Moolchand sees himself as defending a hard-won honor: The district has declared his village “open defecation free.” “People get angry and shout at me ...
ssir.org4y
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste
Not so many decades ago, rural open defecation rates would have been high in essentially every country,” write Diane Coffey and Dean Spears. “India stands alone today not because it changed, but ...
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Fact Check: Canada DIDN'T shame Indians for open defecation, these ads are Photoshopped
Canada has been working with UNICEF since 2012 to eradicate open defecation in the African country. The reports mentioned that the Canadian Government gave about $850,000 to fund one of Ghana's ...
Vanguard7d
FG calls for end to open defecation
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation has expressed deep concern over the ongoing practice of open defecation in Nigeria. According to the 2021 WASHNORM reports, over 47 million ...
webtv.un.org5y
Water for Life Voices
Open defecation Eliminating open defecation, a practice strongly associated with poverty and exclusion, is critical to accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG ...
This Day8d
Nigeria Stands 99.95% short of Ending Open Defecation by 2025
Nigeria currently stands at a 99.95% deficit in meeting the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recommendation of an estimated 11 million toilets to end the menace of open defecation in the ...
BBC5y
India's toilets: Report questions claims that rural areas are free from open defecation
An official report has contradicted Indian government claims that rural areas of the country are completely free from the practice of open defecation. The National Statistical Office (NSO ...
The Star3d
Almost half of Turkana residents still practice open defecation
According to the County Public Health Officer, Innocent Sifuna, only 55 per cent of the county is open defecation-free. He was speaking when the county government received donations of tools to ...
The Punch Newspapers4d
FG declares eight additional LGAs open defecation-free
Joseph Utsev, announced that the National Task Group on Sanitation has declared eight additional Local Government Areas open defecation-free. Utsev, who made the announcement in a press statement ...
Vanguard11d
Ending open defecation in Nigeria our priority – UNICEF
Ado-Ekiti—The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has partnered with journalists, government officials and other relevant stakeholders to end open defecation and eliminate Neglected ...