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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Health Resources

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Data Collection Checklists for Training and Community Visits

Published: 
July 14, 2014
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
The project, Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability, evaluates through a rigorous research program three distinctive strategies to enhance the roles of local actors in Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) interventions in Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia. The project aims to learn, capture and share...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Flood Risk Mapping, Water Bodies Monitoring, and Climate Information for Disaster Management and Detecting Risk Areas of Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission

Published: 
May 1, 2013
National 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
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Integrating WASH into NTD Programs: A Desk Review

Published: 
May 1, 2013
U.S. Agency for International Development
This desk review, Integrating WASH into Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Programs, documents the current state of knowledge within WASH and NTD programs and explores coordinated WASH-NTD integration programs or WASH activities that have been proven or tried to help achieve elimination or control...Read more

Integrating Sanitation Into Services for People Living with HIV and AIDS

Published: 
July 1, 2012
U.S. Agency for International Development
The new PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) strategy calls for a comprehensive, multisectoral approach that expands access to prevention, care, and treatment in ways that promote sustainable country programs. This resources provides an outline of quick, easy ways to integrate...Read more

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Considerations for Accelerated PMTCT Programming

U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource provides the reader with background on the reasons why water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is important to Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs, as well as key programmatic considerations for improving the quality and effectiveness of PMTCT interventions. Read more

Integrating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene into Nutrition Programming

Published: 
May 1, 2013
U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource provides the reader with guidance on how to integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) components into nutrition programs. Provided in this document are guidance on key WASH practices, such as optimal handwashing, treatment and safe storage of household drinking water, sanitation...Read more

Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Mini Toolbox for Teachers and Schools in Zambia

U.S. Agency for International Development
This toolkit was designed to help teachers, School Health and Nutrition (SHN) coordinators, and other school personnel in Zambian primary schools who are carrying out menstrual hygiene management (MHM) programs or activities in their schools. It contains a set of basic documents, such as a...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

USAID: Water and Sanitation

U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource is the homepage for the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) work on water and sanitation. From this page, users can navigate through case studies, as well as lessons learned and best practices. Users will also find the Water and Development Strategy available on...Read more

USAID: Global Development Lab

U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource is the homepage for the U.S. Global Development Lab, which is a new entity within USAID that brings together a diverse set of partners to discover, test, and scale breakthrough solutions to achieve what human progress has only now made possible -- the end of extreme poverty by 2030...Read more

Case Study from World Vision on Citizen Advocacy and Disabilities

Published: 
March 1, 2014
World Vision
This case study from Ghana tells the story of a blind man who advocates in his community for improved water and sanitation.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

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