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India, Rajasthan: household latrines created reasons for women to remain in seclusion at home
03 Mar 10
The findings of the analysis suggest that attention must be given to latrine building as both a technical undertaking and a gendered political intervention.
Menstrual hygiene Ghana: keeping girls in school may be a matter of better sanitary protection
03 Mar 10
When free sanitary protection is provided to secondary school girls there is a sharp drop in absenteeism and increased participation in household chores and socializing, a new pilot study in Ghana shows.
Arsenic: MIT scientists pinpoint origin of contamination in drinking water in Bangladesh
16 Dec 09
Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting millions of people in Bangladesh, a new MIT study says.
Cholera: increased precipitation patterns influence outbreaks in Lusaka, Zambia
16 Dec 09
Scientists from Nigata University, Japan, have found that increased precipitation patterns are contributing to cholera outbreaks in Lusaka, Zambia. The same link was found between insufficient coverage of drainage network sand elevated the risk of cholera outbreaks.
Health impact: Gates Foundation awards US$ 10.9 million to evaluate sanitation interventions
12 Nov 09
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, US$ 10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrhoeal disease in developing countries.
On-site sanitation: peer pressure builds more latrines than financial assistance in Orissa
28 Oct 09
Government subsidies persuade some people to change habits, but social shame works even better, suggests a recent ground breaking study of efforts to reduce elevated childhood death and disease rates blamed on the microbial pathogens that cause diarrhoea in rural India.
Small water enterprises: data gaps in evidence-based research in developing countries
12 Oct 09
A review of the current literature on small water enterprises (SWEs) found that there were no rigorous, evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific studies proving their effectiveness in providing potable water.
Hygiene promotion: the role of media exposure, poverty and infrastructure on handwashing in Kenya
12 Oct 09
Structural constraints can limit hygiene practices in the very disadvantaged sections of a population, thus jeopardizing the potential success of hygiene promotion campaigns in those most at risk of disease.
Health impact: water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to combat childhood diarrhoea
12 Oct 09
The notion that water quality treatment in the household and hygiene interventions are necessarily the most efficacious and sustainable interventions for promoting reduction of diarrhoea is challenged by the results of a synthetic review of impact evaluations examining effectiveness of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in reducing childhood diarrhoea.
Health impact: deaths associated with incomplete water and sanitation provision in African refugee camps
07 Sep 09
In the period from 2005 to 2007, 1,400 deaths were estimated to be directly attributable to incomplete water and sanitation alone in refugee camps in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
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