Investment in local enterprise crucial to tackling poor sanitation

From Rosebell's Blog Thu Feb 20 2014, 11:29:32

Over the last two days I have been startled by Uganda sanitation statistics and how the country loses a lot of money and time to treatment of diseases, which are preventable. One person suggested that may be it is a matter of people in finance not being able to make the link that prevention costs [...]

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