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WHO – 10 facts on sanitation
Lack of sanitation facilities forces people to defecate in the open, in rivers or near areas where children play or food is prepared. This increases the risk of transmitting disease. The Ganges river...
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UNICEF/WHO – Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation: Special Focus on...
Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation (pdf, 17MB) is now on the WHO Water Sanitation Health website and will also soon be on the UNICEF/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme...
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UK: Wash your hands, NHS staff reminded
03 September 2008 The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is reinforcing its message to NHS staff to clean their hands at the point of care, with the reissue of its alert on hand hygiene. (…) In...
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UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS)
The Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) is a UN-Water pilot initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO). UN-Water GLAAS constitutes a new approach to reporting...
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Angola launches third national de-worming campaign in schools
Over the next month, primary school children in all of Angola’s 18 provinces will receive de-worming tablets as part of a national campaign that is now in its third year. The campaign aims to ensure...
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Pakistan, NWFP: Militants cause gastroenteritis in Swat Valley
Militants blow up a an electricity sub-station, causing tube wells and the water supply to be disrupted; people resort to using dirty water and then fall sick. This, in a nutshell, is what has happened...
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Water, sanitation and hygiene standards in schools in low-cost settings
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking assistance from those with suitable experience to review the draft – Water, sanitation and hygiene standards in schools in low-cost settings Draft- WASH...
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South Africa or India: who holds the world record for handwashing?
South African children have set an official new Guiness World Record for the most number of people washing hands at one location, but a simultaneous event in India attracted more than eight times as...
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World Health Assembly: WaterAid puts WASH on the agenda
WaterAid was able to get WASH issues on the agenda at the 2010 World Health Assembly, reports policy researcher Yael Velleman. A text drafted by WaterAid on the role of access to WASH in preventing...
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Research project on safe wastewater reuse for urban poor concludes
The WHO/IDRC/FAO research project on non-treatment options for safe wastewater use in poor urban communities was concluded on 30 April 2010. The report of the final workshop in Amman, Jordan (7-10...
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Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan: cholera claims eight lives
Poor hygiene exacerbated by growing piles of rubbish and the current political crisis are all factors that haelth experts and residents say contributed to a dry-season cholera outbreak in Abidjan, the...
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64th World Health Assembly approves three WASH resolutions
The 64th World Health Assembly (WHA) has adopted a resolution on drinking-water, sanitation and health, and two other related resolutions on cholera and Guinea worm (dracunculiasis). Yael Velleman at...
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Al Jazeera’s Inside Story discusses new WHO/UNICEF report on water and...
The UN announced that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to cut the number of people who do not have access to safe drinking water by half, has been met five years before the 2015 deadline....
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WASH by numbers: the latest on cost benchmarks, economic returns and handwashing
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity....
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Save Lives: Clean Your Hands – 5 May 2013
Photo: WHO This annual global campaign on 5 May supports the World Health Organization’s (WHO) effort to improve hand hygiene in health care and thus prevent often life threatening...
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Campaigning for better WASH in health care facilities
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development...
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Water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO and Unicef provides an “alarming picture of the state of WASH in health care facilities”. Drawing on limited data from 54 low- and middle-income...
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Health workers must have #safeHANDS – WHO annual call to action
This year’s annual day to recognize hand hygiene among health workers commemorates ten years of the Clean Care is Safer Care programme (2005-2015) of the World Health Organization (WHO). Hand hygiene...
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Lessons learned from WASH and NTD projects
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are essential for preventing and managing diseases including neglected tropical diseases (NTD) which affect over 1 billion people among the poorest communities....
View ArticleSeeking inputs for “consensus” meeting on sanitation interventions
Following the publication of results from a number of recent studies investigating links between improvements in sanitation and health (such as the WaSHBenefits study, studies in Tamil Nadu, Madya...
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Sanitation and health: what do we want to know?
Experts meet to discuss reaching a consensus on what the evidence tells us. Radu Ban Jan Willem Rosenbom This is the first of two blogs written about the “Sanitation and health evidence consensus...
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