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At least 23 percent of girls in India leave school when they start menstruating and the rest miss an average of five days during each monthly menstrual period between the ages of 12 and 18, according to WSSCC, a partnership run by government, non-governmental organisation (NGO) members and a United  Nations-hosted secretariat.

The Advisory Committee of the Global Sanitation Fund met in Geneva 5 to 6 February.

“With our behaviour, we are killing our children,” says J.P. Shukla to trigger Cambodia’s sanitation activists to ambitiously end preventable deaths caused by open defecation as the kingdom’s ‘season of flies [March to June]’ is coming.

Villagers in Matam, a region of Senegal,  celebrated a major milestone in the implementation of the community-led total sanitation approach (CLTS), namely the end of open defecation.

The statistics are chilling: 53% of Madagascar’s 20.7 million people defecate openly every day while another 33% use dilapidated, unsafe toilets. The under-5 mortality rate of is one of the highest in the world, at 72 deaths per 1,000 children. One-fifth of these deaths are caused by diarrhoea, causing great personal anguish for families, straining health care systems, and stretching pocketbooks filled with a per capita income of just US$ 488 per year. In Madagascar, open air defecation leads to a loss of an estimated US$ 65 million per year.

Les statistiques sont effrayantes: 53% des 20,7 millions d’habitants à Madagascar pratiquent la défécation à l’air libre chaque jour si 33% utilisent des toilettes délabrées et plutôt dangereuses. Le taux de mortalité des enfants de moins de 5 ans est parmi les plus élevés dans le monde, à 72 pour 1000 naissances vivantes, un cinquième de ces décès est causé par la diarrhée qui engendre une inquiétude permanente pour les familles et un faible système de service de santé et les moyens maigres constitués d’un revenu annuel d’US $ 488 par individu. Pour Madagascar, la défécation à l'air libre engendre une perte estimée à plus de 48 Millions d'Euro par an.