This news feed on sanitation is maintained by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and by USAID’s Environmental Health knowledge management activity and the Hygiene Improvement Project. Its purpose is to provide news, information and resources to promote the 2008 International Year of Sanitation.
Pakistan, NWFP: Militants cause gastroenteritis in Swat Valley (23 Oct 08) 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 in parts of Swat Valley in North West Frontier Province.
Over 2,000 {people] have visited [the Saidu Teaching Hospital (STH) in [...]
Afghanistan: medical waste poses health risk in urban areas (22 Oct 08) Solid waste produced by the health-care system in Kabul and other major cities is not being properly managed and poses a serious public health risk, according to health experts.
Medical waste - including used needles and syringes, soiled dressings, body parts, diagnostic samples, blood, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and medical devices - is lying in open rubbish dumps [...]
Afghanistan: UN assisting Afghan authorities to respond to diarrhoea outbreak (22 Oct 08) United Nations agencies are helping authorities to respond to a diarrhoea outbreak in Afghanistan, where only about a quarter of the population has access to safe drinking water and 20 per cent of child deaths is attributed to the easily preventable disease.
According to the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, the outbreak is located mainly in [...]
Toilet talk can save lives (21 Oct 08) If someone compiled a list of things people would prefer never to talk about, somewhere near the top would be human excrement. It is, to say the least, hardly a topic of public conversation.
Unfortunately, our nose-wrinkling aversion to toilet talk can hinder what in fact are important discussions about sanitation. (…)
Because taboos have always surrounded [...]
Ghana: 84,000 die of diarrhoea in 4 years (21 Oct 08) A total of 84,000 deaths were caused by diarrhea as recorded in the country since 2004, accounting for 25 per cent of deaths among children under age five.
Theodora Adomako-Adjei, Executive Service Coordinator of Community Water and Sanitation Agency, disclosed this at the launch of the Global Handwashing Day in Accra. (…)
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Gambia: UN International Year of Sanitation and Global Hand Washing Day Commemorated (21 Oct 08) The Gambia last Wednesday joined the rest of the international community to commemorate UN international year of sanitation and global hand washing day.
Global hand washing day, the first of its kind, focuses on children and schools in order to raise awareness and promote behavioral change. (…)
Vice president Njie-Saidy highlighted the importance of washing hands with [...]
A loo with a view: The worlds most scenic lavatories (21 Oct 08) We spend a large part of our lives in the smallest room, yet rarely do we give it a second thought. One man, however, has travelled the world in search of the most breathtaking lavatories.
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Luke Barclay, author of Loo With a View, set off on a two-year global mission: to find bathrooms, dunnies, restrooms and [...]
Zimbabwe: cholera outbreak threatens to become endemic (21 Oct 08) A cholera outbreak that has bridged Zimbabwe’s dry season is proving difficult to contain and has spread from the cities to rural areas.
There are fears that the onset of the rainy season could make the waterborne disease endemic if the authorities fail to address the water and sanitation crisis plaguing the county.
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The UN noted that [...]
India, West Bengal: NCC cadets start sanitation awareness drive (20 Oct 08) National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets in West Bengal have started a sanitation campaign to educate people in the remote villages of poverty-stricken Purulia district about the use of safe toilets.
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“The cadets have taken up a 6-month programme to make people aware about the use of latrines. Apart from organising workshops and training, cadets will also [...]
Providing toilets, safe water is top route to reducing world poverty: UN University (20 Oct 08) Mapping vulnerable communities essential to global health and poverty
Simply installing toilets where needed throughout the world and ensuring safe water supplies would do more to end crippling poverty and improve world health than any other possible measure, according to an analysis released [on 19 Oct 2008] by the United Nations University - International Network on [...]
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