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What will you feel if you hear that you have tuberculosis or TB for the second time? For 32-year-old David (not his real name), all he could say to himself was “Kalma lang (Be calm).”

Not even the threat of decades-old conflict can stop a remote village in North Cotabato from achieving total sanitation.

Olongapo City, Philippines — Virginia Dapilaga, 16, had already trekked for an hour, at sunrise, from the resettlement area of the indigenous Aetas to the village proper in Barangay Gordon…

Residents of a coastal community in Eastern Samar survived a super typhoon
and rebuilt their houses, toilets included.

A remote community shows how a simple story of fecal-oral transmission can change people’s behaviors.

Just ask Caselyn Briguera, 19, of Quezon City. Caselyn has learned to shrug off jokes about her height. “Sanay na po ako (I am used to it.),” she says.