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clean water and sanitation increases economic activity

How Clean Water and Sanitation Increases Economic Activity

The cycle of poverty associated with chronic illness is well known. Poverty negatively impacts the health of these regions on several fronts: the persistence of existing infectious diseases including diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria, the advent of new and re-emerging infectious diseases such as SARS, TB and now COVID and an increase in non-communicable diseases including…