The number of Kenyans practising “open defaecation” has doubled in five years, despite health risks, a new report by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) shows.
Open defaecation is the practice of people relieving themselves in fields, street gutters, bushes, water bodies, and other open areas. This practice exposes them to diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A and typhoid.
