While there are linkages between the preventive and curative aspects of health and WASH there are constraints which prevent them from working... Read more...
In February and March 2021, home improvement campaigns were conducted in 49 villages of Mugusu and Kasenda sub-counties, and a monitoring exercise... Read more...
Updated guidance, including recommended targets, on domestic water supply to ensure beneficial health outcomes. Read more...
Despite the high level of exposure to the COVID-19 virus among HCWs in the treatment centers, only 14.0% were at high risk of COVID-19 virus... Read more...
A rapid study on the challenges facing sanitation workers in Indian cities and towns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
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...
Cryptosporidium is a threat in drinking and recreational water, contaminated food, day care centers, hospitals, and in persons with exposure to... 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...
An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches. Read more...
Ingeborg Krukkert of IRC explains what hygiene promotion is and why it's crucial to WASH systems strengthening. 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...
An information guide to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in schools, health care facilities, the workplace, orphanages, prisons, refugee... Read more...
A study on sanitation-related psychosocial stress among Indian women in Odisha finds that: Sanitation-behaviors are more expansive than urination and... Read more...
This fact sheet explains why institutional water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) should be part of the post-2015 development agenda. It includes... 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...
International consultations on targets and indicators for post-2015 WaSH identified non-household settings as a priority, but not all countries are... 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...
In rural Cambodia newborns risk infections both in health centres and at home because hygiene is poor and water and sanitation facilities are unsafe... Read more...