| PHILIPPINES: Funding shortfall brings health, food security risks, UN warns |
 BANGKOK, 18 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - The UN has warned of serious health risks and food security problems over a lack of funding to assist the Philippines after the country was hit by three major storms and typhoons.
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AFGHANISTAN: Toilet tribulations |  KABUL, 16 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - For Kabul’s estimated population of 4-5 million there are only 35 public toilets, according to the municipal authorities.
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In Brief: Nine million Afghans living on less than a dollar a day - survey |  KABUL, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The average per capita monthly expenditure of nine million Afghans is less than 66 US cents a day, and millions of other Afghans spend about $42 a month, according to a summary of Afghanistan’s new National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA).
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INDONESIA: WASH concerns a month after Sumatra quake |  JAKARTA, 4 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say.
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AFGHANISTAN: Drier weather forcing southern farmers to adapt |  KANDAHAR, 4 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Afghanistan appears to be getting drier: Since the 1996 drought many traditional irrigation sources such as springs, streams, rivers and man-made subterranean aqueducts have been drying up in the southern provinces, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL).
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PHILIPPINES: Safety first as Mindanao IDPs consider going home |  DATU PIANG, 29 October 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Security is the principal concern for thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mindanao when considering whether to return home.
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SRI LANKA: Donor frustration over IDP camps |  BANGKOK, 23 October 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Donors are increasingly concerned over the conditions in Sri Lanka’s camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) and are less likely to provide funding if they continue to restrict IDPs’ freedom of movement, say UN officials.
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LAOS: UN launches $10m flood aid appeal |  VIENTIANE, 22 October 2009 (IRIN Asia) - The UN launched a flash appeal on 22 October for more than US$10 million after Typhoon Ketsana brought devastating floods to Laos, hitting some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
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TAJIKISTAN: Mudslide resettlement scheme caught short |  KHUROSON, 20 October 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Five months after mudslides completely destroyed her home in Uyali village in Tajikistan’s southern district of Khuroson, Momogul Sharipova, in her 60s, moved to a brand new government-built house, but there is a major problem: it has no toilet.
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GLOBAL: Overlooked cures for diarrhoea |  DAKAR, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - For decades diarrhoea has been a stealth killer, claiming more under-five children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, yet it remains a neglected disease, according to World Health Organization diarrhoea specialist Olivier Fontaine. "We made huge progress in the 1980s, but donor investment decreased in the 1990s as attention was diverted to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."
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