World Toilet Day: UNICEF-Without toilets, childhood is even riskier due to malnutrition

Student at Temeke primary school in Tanzania, where only four percent of schools have made any sanitation or handwashing provision for children with disabilities.

Dar es Salaam, 19 November 2015 – Lack of access to toilets is endangering millions of the world’s poorest children, UNICEF said today, pointing to emerging evidence of links between inadequate sanitation and malnutrition.

Some 2.4 billion people globally do not have toilets and 946 million – roughly 1 in 8 of the world’s...

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UNICEF: Without toilets, childhood is even riskier due to malnutrition

Lack of access to toilets is endangering millions of the world’s poorest children, UNICEF said today, pointing to emerging evidence of links between inadequate sanitation and malnutrition.
Some 2.4 billion people globally do not have toilets and 946 million – roughly 1 in 8 of the world’s population – defecate in the open. Meanwhile, an estimated 159 million children under 5 years old are stunted (short for their age) and another 50 million are wasted (low weight for age).
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