Global Handwashing Day in Addis Ababa was celebrated at a local primary school in the attendance of many dignitaries. Read more...
Updated guidance, including recommended targets, on domestic water supply to ensure beneficial health outcomes. 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...
Ensuring access to safe and sufficient water and sanitation and hygiene promotion in schools has great potential to improve health and education and... Read more...
Sanitation and malnutrition: challenges and opportunities Read more...
This paper draws on examples from eighteen countries to summarise emerging successes and challenge in programmes that use water, sanitation and... Read more...
Solutions that benefit both consumers and suppliers are required. Read more...
A list of Cochrane and other related systematic reviews, and clinical trials. Read more...
Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
Behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks can explain half of global mortality and more than one-third of global DALYs... Read more...
This evidence gap map (EGM) provides access to the best available evidence on the outcomes of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions and... Read more...
"The spreading of Ebola and a range of water and sanitation related diseases can be dramatically reduced by strengthening and promoting hygiene behaviours," says IRC's Africa Regional Programme Manager and Hygiene and Sanitation specialist Alana Potter. Read more...
Ebola is spreading fast and continues to plague West Africa. One of the countries hardest hit is Sierra Leone. With numbers of infected people rising every day, measures are taken to contain it. Read more...
A unique handwashing campaign jointly funded by SHARE (source) and the Wellcome Trust has shown for the first time that using emotional motivators – such as feelings of disgust and nurture – rather than health messages, can result in significant, long-lasting improvements in people's handwashing... Read more...