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.
Cameroon: 1.5 Million Toilets to Improve Sanitation (19 Oct 08) UNICEF, October 10, in Yaounde, launched a project to construct some 1.5 million toilets throughout the country [...] in three years at the tune of FCFA 3.4 billion per year. According to the programme, households and public establishments would have to do the digging of the toilets after which a subvention would be given to [...]
Uganda: Hepatitis E spreads, IDPs most vulnerable (17 Oct 08) Hepatitis E is on the increase in Uganda’s northern district of Pader, where it has claimed scores of lives and infected thousands in the past year, officials said. Since May, there have been 55 new infections and seven deaths in Pader, according to Angelo Luganya, a health official in Pader.
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Since 2007, the viral disease has [...]
India - Sulabh to expand sanitation campaign to include handwashing (16 Oct 08) New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Sulabh International, an Indian NGO working in the field of sanitation, Thursday announced that it will expand the campaign for hand-washing to cover mothers, doctors and others taking care of children.
We can significantly reduce the mortality rate among children caused by diarrhoea and pneumonia if those handling children ensure that [...]
Global Handwashing Day: A Little Bit of Soap, A Powerful Effect on Human Health (16 Oct 08) WASHINGTON, Oct 14, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/
Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) Offers Year-Round Resources for Educators, Consumers on the Connection Between Hygiene and Health - New Book Against Disease Reminds Us “That sanitary diligence is as pertinent to health today as it was a century ago.” The message of the first-ever Global Handwashing Day on [...]
Millions lather up to save lives as UN observes Global Handwashing Day (16 Oct 08) 15 October 2008 – Nearly 200 million people from over 70 countries participated today in United Nations events marking the first ever Global Handwashing Day, held to raise awareness about how a lack of effective sanitation and poor hygiene practices can bring death and disease.
Handwashing with soap – particularly before eating and after using the [...]
Global Handwashing Day videos (16 Oct 08) On 18 October 2008, Global Handwashing Day was celebrated for the first time in over 70 countries.
Watch below the official Global Handwashing Day video, with Nelson Mandela and clips from Africa, Asia and Latin America - also available on the Global Handwashing Day web site. The song is by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors, The Wiggles, a [...]
From Thrones to Robo-Commodes: The Pitfalls of Inventing a Better Toilet (15 Oct 08) The flush toilet is a curious object. It is the default method of excreta disposal in most of the industrialized, technologically advanced world. It was invented either 500 or 2,000 years ago, depending on opinion. The ancient inhabitants of the mighty Indus Valley, in present-day Pakistan, had privies above channels of running water, whereas King [...]
Go Ahead, Say It: ShitThere, Now We Can Seriously Discuss Sanitation (15 Oct 08) Sanitation doesn’t get a lot of headlines but, all told, its absence kills 6,000 children a day, according to British charity Water Aid. And the solution chosen by the developed world—the flush toilet—is running up against limits in the amount of water available to flush away human waste.
The United Nations has attempted to fill this [...]
India: Daily soap (15 Oct 08) Global Handwashing Day aims to control communicable fatal diseases and thus control mortality rate among children.
Up to a million microbes could have touched your child’s lunch before they do! Whilst you – and they – think that they’re tucking into a healthy meal of roti and sabzi or daal and rice, chances are that they’re [...]
1m Ethiopian children take part in Global Hand Wash Day (15 Oct 08) (…) Ethiopia is mobilising close to 5,000 schools nationwide to have 1,000,000 children participate in the challenge towards a world record.
A half-day national launching event will kick-off at Maskal square in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to bring together children and stakeholders from government, public and private sectors, NGOs, the media, school teachers, parents and [...]
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