Toilet "taboo" hurts poor, development says expert

ROME – Governments are failing to fund projects to improve access to toilets and other sanitation services in poor countries because the subject remains “taboo”, a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Monday.

“Who wants to talk about shit?” asked Frank Rijsberman, Director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at the $34 billion charitable foundation, during an interview with Reuters on Monday.

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