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Sanitation Matters: Health and Hygiene – Focus on Handwashing
22 Oct 12
Sanitation Matters: Health and Hygiene – Focus on Handwashing, April 2012 issue (Full-text) pdf Water Information Network, South Africa. Contents: A Tool For Measuring The Effectiveness Of Handwashing 3-7 Five Best Practices Of Hygiene Promotion Interventions In the WASH Sector …Continue reading →
Disney’s 1940s sanitation and hygiene promotion films
22 Oct 12
In the 1940s, the Walt Disney Studios produced a series of educational films on sanitation and hygiene promotion for developing countries. The films, in the Health for the Americas series, were aimed at Latin America. They were commissioned by the …Continue reading →
Factors determining the effectiveness of Oxfam’s public health promotion approach in Haiti
22 Oct 12
Factors determining the effectiveness of Oxfam’s public health promotion approach in Haiti, 2012. Download Full-text (pdf) Nadja Contzen, Hans-Joachim Mosler. Eawag. In response to the devastating Earthquake of January 12th 2010 and the cholera outbreak of October of that same …Continue reading →
Key hygiene behaviours for safe water and health on World Water Day
22 Oct 12
Alana Potter, lead author of the WASHCost working paper on “Assessing hygiene cost-effectiveness“, explains the importance of changing hygiene behaviours so that improved water and sanitation can lead to the expected health benefits. She has been reviewing indicators, tools and …Continue reading →
Menstrual hygiene management firmly on the agenda of regional workshops
22 Oct 12
The third bi-annual Asia Sanitation and Hygiene Practitioners’ workshop, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 31 January to 2 February 2012, reported notable progress in implementing menstrual hygiene into WASH programmes. In 2008, menstrual hygiene management was signalled as a neglected area in …Continue reading →
Measuring WASH and food hygiene practices – post 2015 goals
22 Oct 12
A new paper reviews the case for the importance of hand, food and menstrual hygiene as candidates for post-MDG goal and target setting. Of the three themes, handwashing with soap at key times is the one which has been the subject …Continue reading →
The ‘Tampon King’ who sparked a period of change for India’s women
22 Oct 12
Source: The Independent, June 29, 2012, by Andrew Buncombe He was cast out by his fellow villagers, who believed he had gone mad, but now, Arunachalam Muruganantham is pioneering a positive change in women’s health. When Arunachalam Muruganantham spotted his …Continue reading →
Pneumonia and diarrhoea: Tackling the deadliest diseases for the world’s poorest children
22 Oct 12
Pneumonia and diarrhoea: Tackling the deadliest diseases for the world’s poorest children, 2012. Full-text (pdf) UNICEF This report makes a remarkable and compelling argument for tackling two of the leading killers of children under age 5: pneumonia and diarrhoea. By …Continue reading →
Links to WASHplus Weeklies on Sanitation
22 Oct 12
Below are links to WASHplus Weeklies on sanitation-related topics: 06/01/2012 - A WASHplus Weekly: Focus on WASH-Related Diseases 05/11/2012 - A WASHplus Weekly: Update on Sludge Management 04/20/2012 - A WASHplus Weekly: Focus on Small-Scale WASH Service Providers 04/13/2012 - A WASHplus Weekly: Hygiene …Continue reading →
Potential PhD in Menstrual Hygiene Management at WEDC, Loughborough University
22 Oct 12
The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), UK, is exploring the possibility of supporting a student to carry out PhD research related to Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). In some exceptional cases, funding for international students may be considered under the …Continue reading →
