Why the poo taboo has held back a killer disease, and what’s changing

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is a disease that kills more than one million people a year, nearly half of them children under five, and it rarely breaks through in global health coverage. Researchers have a name for that gap: the “poo taboo.” People, including journalists and policymakers, are less comfortable engaging with […] Why the poo taboo has held back a killer disease, and what’s changing first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.