This is an account of an international agency working in a rural area of Asia where infant mortality rates are very high—often associated with infantile diarrhoea. The development team decide that what is needed is to improve sanitation in the village and install a block latrine. Some years later they revisit the area and find that the latrine is unused and broken down. And that the health situation remains much the …
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