Respect, and the Silent Health Crisis We Pretend Not to See Drive through many cities across Africa at dawn or dusk. You will see something so normalised that many people no longer react. Cars pass.

Defecating or urinating is often referred to as answering the call of nature. But if you must answer the call in public in ...

For Uganda, a country whose millions of citizens still practice open defecation, it must use students to go into communities and sensitize them against this vice, Dr. Moses Ntaro has recommended. Dr.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have such a minor question that I do not think you would want to publish it, but I've been curious for about 20 years. I am a healthy 77-year-old male without health issues. When I ...

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 ...

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 ...