An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

Dharavi, in central Mumbai, is considered one of the largest slums in Asia, but deep within this neighborhood, below the shanty grey roofs, loosely comprised of scavenged, upcycled metal, lives a ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Perspectives on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in an Urban and Interconnected World." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community advocacy ...

As per a report, there are around 675 identified jhuggi jhopri bastis (slum clusters) in Delhi, housing at least 1.5 million people. The criteria for identifying a ‘jhuggi jhopri’ and a ‘jhuggi jhopri ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

The slums in the Global South hold the key to building circular cities in other developing countries, according to Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers. Slums, a term used to describe informal ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the "gangster life" in Nairobi's Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...