Research

Diarrhoea control: alternative method estimating child mortality

09 Sep 08

Planning and evaluation of interventions to control diarrhoea deaths and to reduce under-5 mortality is obstructed by the lack of a system that regularly generates cause-of-death information.

Arsenic: predicting groundwater arsenic contamination from surface parameters

27 Aug 08

Arsenic contamination of groundwater resources threatens the health of millions of people worldwide, particularly in the densely populated river deltas of Southeast Asia. This study helps predict arsenic contamination in the region.

DR Congo: cholera campaign should start at lakesides

22 Jul 08

A recent study of all cholera cases (67,738 cases and 3,666 deaths) in Katanga and Eastern Kasai, in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2000 to 2005 shows that lakes were the sources of outbreaks.

South Africa: Intensive hygiene education with products works

22 Jul 08

Intensive hygiene education plus the use of hygiene products such as antibacterial soap, surface cleanser/disinfectant, and skin antiseptic significantly reduce respiratory, gastrointestinal, and skin diseases among families who participated in a Hygiene Promotion and Illness Reduction study in South Africa.

Dengue control: septic tanks in Puerto Rico discovered as breeding sites for mosquitoes

30 May 08

The implementation of a dengue control programme in Puerto Rico led to the discovery of previously unknown mosquito breeding sites underground.

Health impact: 20 to 50 per cent of children and hard core poor defecate in the open, Bangladesh survey shows

30 May 08

Despite the massive action on community-led sanitation by NGOs and the government in Bangladesh the rate of open defecation among the children and hard core poor is 20 to 50 percent, a recent baseline survey revealed.

Hygiene: handwashing indicators strongly influenced by socio-economic status in Bangladesh

24 Apr 08

Handwashing promotion efforts in urban Dhaka that include specific efforts to provide handwashing facilities inside the house are more likely to improve handwashing behaviour than interventions that ignore this component.

Sustainability: intervention model for water supplies in remote rural communities in Peru

24 Apr 08

Sustainability of water supplies in remote rural communities is problematic and resource consuming. CARE has a long history of working hand in hand with remote rural communities and devising programmes tailored to their needs.

Household treatment: difficulties in bringing point-of-use water treatment to scale in Guatemala

19 Mar 08

Even after efficacy was demonstrated within their community and an aggressive sophisticated marketing approach, only 5% of households in a Guatemalan study purchased flocculant-disinfectant for point-of-use water treatment.

Hygiene: handwashing reduces diarrhoea by 30 per cent

21 Feb 08

Handwashing can reduce diarrhoea episodes by about 30 per cent. This significant reduction is comparable to the effect of providing clean water in low-income areas.

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