Open defecation is the human practice of defecating outside ("in the open") rather than into a toilet. People may choose fields, bushes, forests, ditches...

involuntary. In infants, the defecation occurs by reflex action without the voluntary control of the external anal sphincter. Defecation is voluntary in adults...

disease by reducing the amount of human feces in the environment from open defecation. This decreases the transfer of pathogens between feces and food by...

India on 2 October 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management and to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) villages. The program also...

Indian states and territories by the percentage of households which are open defecation free, that is those that have access to sanitation facilities, in both...

are not disadvantaged. Open defecation is the practice of defecating out in the open, rather than using a toilet. "Open defecation free" (ODF) is a central...

media campaign led by UNICEF to combat the country's problems with open defecation. The campaign has been the subject of jokes on social media, prompting...

access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those...

basic practices such as open defecation, and helped control the spread of many waterborne diseases. However, unsafe defecation in unimproved latrines still...

ladder defined by the Joint Monitoring Programme in 2016 starts at open defecation and moves upwards using the terms "unimproved", "limited", "basic"...

disease transmission include lack of adequate sanitation (leading to open defecation), and poor hygiene practices. If soil or water bodies are polluted...

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levels of pollution (e.g. air pollution, littering, water pollution, open defecation), higher proportions of people with tropical and infectious diseases...

of defecation postures to defecate: squatting and sitting. People use the squatting postures when using squat toilets or when defecating in the open in...

access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation". The number of different types of toilets used worldwide is large...

transmission. Depending on the sex of the user and type of use (urination or defecation) the seat itself may be left either up or down. The issue of whether the...

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term and long term. In the immediate phase, the focus is on managing open defecation, and toilet technologies might include very basic latrines, pit latrines...

diarrhea can lead to severe dehydration and can become life-threatening. Open defecation is a leading cause of infectious diarrhea leading to death. Poverty...

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Government of India. The Urban areas of Chhattisgarh attained the title of open defecation free on 2 October 2017 and the rural areas have achieved a 90.31% sanitation...

despite having access to a toilet, about 522 million people practised open defecation in India in 2014. Kerala, Mizoram, and Lakshadweep State/UT have a...

"safely managed sanitation" and around 673 million people practice open defecation.: 74  Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to "Ensure availability and...

Bharat Mission, the country-wide sanitation campaign to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management. Iyer's modus operandi to achieve...

to, 1) “develop, launch and roll-out a national Strategy to reduce open defecation to 21.7% to 9% by 2025, 2) fully fund the building of efficient regulatory...

towns free of open defecation". The Times of India. Dutta, Saptarshi (7 September 2017). "With 76 Towns And Cities Already Open Defecation Free, West Bengal...

and best practice in Swachh Sarvekshan 2018. It was also declared as open defecation free in January 2018 under Swachh Bharat Mission. It is also one of...

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which aimed to make India clean and free of open defecation by 2 October 2019. The first survey was undertaken in 2016 and covered...

complexes. 10 million (around 20%) of Sudan’s population practices open defecation. There are few public toilets in Khartoum. Despite this, the city has...