Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" ...

Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements. Journal of Urban Health , 2020; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6 Cite This Page : ...

Jose Castillo, an urban planner and architect in Mexico City, says that Ciudad Neza, home to 1.2 million people, should serve as a model for other blighted urban areas and slums.

A study conducted in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil has found that open sewers, accumulations of refuse, and inadequate floodwater drainage are acting as sources for transmission of the ...

A homeless encampment is seen on July 11, 2023, in Phoenix. An estimated 89% of Americans will live in urban areas by 2050, adding to the potential for a growing slum economy across the United States.

Urban slum conditions must be addressed, says Archbishop Migliore. Apr 22, 2008 / 07:39 am. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, addressed the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council's Commission on ...

These slums, characterized by overcrowding, substandard housing, and inadequate access to basic services, are expanding rapidly in regions where urban growth is not matched by infrastructure or ...

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, has announced implementing over 150 slum upgrading and urban renewal projects across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones ...

A study conducted in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil has found that open sewers, accumulations of refuse, and inadequate floodwater drainage are acting as sources for transmission of the ...

Delhi health department's ongoing community-based tuberculosis (TB) screening drive in urban slums has identified 37 cases ...

Government-enforced social isolation may help relatively affluent populations limit the spread of COVID-19, but these measures can be devasting for the nearly 1 billion people around the globe ...