Open sewage at Kenya’s largest slum, Kibera, in Nairobi. Photo credit: Chiba Yasuyoshi/AFP via Getty Images Imagine you are miles from the nearest restroom, and nature’s call is urgent – a situation ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...

Nigeria is expected to be free of open defecation by 2025. The deadline has been set, through the government’s proclamation and efforts are in top gear to achieve set objectives. At the front in this ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have demonstrated that yogurt intake increases the diversity of gut microbiota and alters its composition. Furthermore, bathing in chloride hot springs after yogurt ...

Some of us are not aware of the impacts of open-air defecation. We are not even aware of what is open-air defecation. Basically, open-air defecation is the emptying of bowels in an open environment ...

Residents of Oregun in the Ojota Area of Lagos State have raised concerns over the incidence of open defecation in parts of the community. They lamented that if left unchecked, the practice would ...