Best practices for developing and managing effective environmental cleaning programs, selecting and managing environmental cleaning supplies and... Read more...
Technical brief on providing guidance on water, sanitation and health care waste that is relevant to viruses, including coronaviruses. Read more...
Sanitation criteria under the Model Healthy Village Program would best be harmonized with the Ministry of Health's Guideline for Open Defecation Free... Read more...
Integrating WASH into nutrition policies and programmes provides a means to achieve greater health gains and reinforce the benefits of primary... Read more...
Improvements in sanitation access played a substantial role in increasing average child height. Read more...
Cryptosporidium is a threat in drinking and recreational water, contaminated food, day care centers, hospitals, and in persons with exposure to... Read more...
A comprehensive package of WASH interventions is needed that is tailored to address the local exposure landscape and enteric disease burden. Read more...
Unsafely managed sanitation, especially in rural areas, remains a challenge in developing countries as a result of population growth, climate change... Read more...
Listen to the keynote of Dr Gilbert Buckle, delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium and learn more about his work as public health... Read more...
An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches. Read more...
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the lack of access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities. What is needed to... Read more...
Behaviour change is not sufficient in itself to improve health and livelihoods, nor is construction, improving accountability, training, capacity... Read more...
Ingeborg Krukkert of IRC explains what hygiene promotion is and why it's crucial to WASH systems strengthening. Read more...
This review confirms positive impacts of sanitation on aspects of health, but evidence gaps remain. More research is needed that rigorously describes... Read more...
The economic impacts of inadequate sanitation for health, access time and tourism is estimated to be INR 2.4 trillion ($53.8 billion) in 2006. In... Read more...
A lack of sanitation access in the community is a significant risk factor for anaemia and child growth stunting, but not for incidence of diarrhoea... Read more...
The Max Foundation has developed the Healthy Village concept to reduce child mortality through safe water supply and sanitation, safe motherhood and... Read more...
The biggest health gains will be realised when entire communities use improved sanitation services. Read more...
Focused efforts on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are urgently needed if the global Neglected Tropical Diseases roadmap targets are to be met... Read more...
Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...