General medicine
2.5 billion live with poor sanitation facilities
Every day, over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and nearly 1.2 billion practise open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of all, according to a report issued by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.
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http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr2...
World Health Organization