Health
According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. Resources available in this sub-theme include guidance on installation of cost-effective safe water supply systems and latrines, summaries of health improvements following WASH projects, and other resources that can help to improve the understanding of the health implications of WASH projects.
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American Refugee Committee: Mozambique Program 1993-1996: Final Program Report
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October 1, 1996U.S. Agency for International Development
The program concentrated on improving rural sanitation and health knowledge and behaviors, providing clean drinking water, and furnishing expanded opportunities for formal health care and formal education through the construction of health facilities and schools.Read more
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Mozambique, Sub-Saharan AfricaSofala Province Integrated Health, Water and Sanitation Project: Final Report
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January 1, 1996U.S. Agency for International Development
Final report by Africare on a project (7/93-9/96) to reduce water-borne and other diarrheal diseases in selected peri-urban and rural populations in Beira and Chibabava District, Sofala Province, Mozambique. In 5/94, the WASH project, which had spearheaded the original project design, redirected...Read more
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Mozambique, Sub-Saharan AfricaRedirection Plan for The Health, Water, and Sanitation Project, Mozambique
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April 1, 1994U.S. Agency for International Development
In February 1993 WASH published a report entitled "Water Shortage and Related Public Health Problems: An Action Plan for the City of Beira, Mozambique" (WASH Field Report No. 389). in response to this plan, Africare wrote the grant proposal, "The Sofala Province Integrated Health,...Read more
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Mozambique, Sub-Saharan AfricaAssessment of Interagency Collaboration in the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project and Its Guinea Worm Reduction Component
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May 1, 1992U.S. Agency for International Development
The joint-agency Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project successfully provided the northern Zou Province with 281 positive wells in villages that received training for social mobilization, pump maintenance and intensive health education.Read more
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Benin, Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Assistance Completion Report: Rural Water Supply and Sanitation
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December 1, 1987U.S. Agency for International Development
The seven-year Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project began in 1980 and ran through 1987 in Togo. The purpose of the project was to improve the health and living conditions of 600,000 rural persons living in the Savanna and Plateau regions of Togo by providing potable water sources and improved...Read more
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Togo, Sub-Saharan AfricaFlood Risk Mapping, Water Bodies Monitoring, and Climate Information for Disaster Management and Detecting Risk Areas of Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission
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May 1, 2013National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This project report provides information on a project of the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, which is developing a tool for forecasting flood risks and assessing vector-borne disease risk for SERVIR-Africa in support of infectious disease monitoring and outbreak prediction. Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaCase Study on Latrines, Hygiene and Improved Health
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March 1, 2014World Vision
World Vision helped to improve the health of a community in Mozambique through the provision of a safe latrine and hygiene training.Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaConnection between Under-Five Deaths, Food Security, and WASH in Eastern Congo
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January 16, 2015Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
LTFHC/WAVE Special Report No. 2 reports on the organization's trip to the southern part of South Kivu (DR Congo) in October 2014, where the team conducted eleven epidemiologic and technical surveys. Data was collected from Uvira and Nundu Health Zones in the Tanganyika District. Analysis of...Read more
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Sub-Saharan Africa, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, TanzaniaTesting CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Niger Learning Brief
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January 1, 1970The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in two departments (districts) in Niger. In this learning brief, we review Plan International Niger's activities. We found that Plan International Niger is gradually building capacity for CLTS at the district and...Read more
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