Effect of the Sphere Standards on the incidence of communicable and infectious diseases in a returnee camp in South Sudan

Background: The Sphere Standards are primarily focused on factors that acutely affect survival instead of guiding long-term development in displaced populations and have gained consensus in more than 200 aid organisations. However, research was not available to back up every Standard and in those c...

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Main Authors: Masashi Rotte, MD MPH, Dr. Harsh Sule, MD MPP, Bon Ku, MD MPP
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-05-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X1570046X