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

A Public Health Project in Methods of Schistosomiasis Haematobium Control in Adasawase, Ghana

Published: 
January 1, 2010
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that is endemic in Africa. Adasawase is a rural village in eastern Ghana that had a 49.8% prevalence rate in 2008. This project utilized a public health approach to further control schistosomiasis. Infection rates in schoolchildren were determined by urine...Read more

Ammonia Wastewater Treatment by Immobilized Activated Sludge

Published: 
January 1, 2010
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The increase in urbanization has created the need for proper management and treatment of wastewater. The activated sludge process is an alternative method to treat high strength ammonia wastewater. In this project, the effect of temperature and the nitrification performances in treating ammonia...Read more
Regional focus: 
Global

MCC Helps Sustain Eradication of the Guinea Worm

Published: 
March 1, 2012
Millennium Challenge Corporation
For ages, Ghanaians relying on stagnant water for their main drinking supply risked contracting Guinea worm disease. As the worm breaks through the skin, the parasite-borne disease leads to a painful infection a year after contamination, complete with fever and swelling, leaving its victims...Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

USAID/E, Preventive Care Package for HIV/AIDS Project: Community Agents Reference Manual (Second Edition)

Published: 
November 1, 2009
U.S. Agency for International Development
This manual is designed to help Community Agents (CA) educate People Living with HIV (PLHIV) about preventing Opportunistic Infections (OIs) using the products and information provided with Basic Preventive Care Package (BPCP).Read more
Regional focus: 
EthiopiaSub-Saharan Africa

Bunds and Bugs in West Africa: Does Rice Irrigation Threaten Farmers' Health?

Published: 
January 1, 1999
U.S. Agency for International Development
Wetland water management and irrigation schemes are thought to make a vector borne disease endemic worse in West Africa. The development and promotion of wetland/irrigated rice cultivation has been restrained because of such health concerns. With rapidly growing consumer demand for rice, and the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Designing a Sanitation Program for the Urban Poor: Case Study From Montego Bay, Jamaica

Published: 
May 1, 1997
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report provides a case study of how to design a sanitation program within the unique conditions of a peri-urban settlement. Specifically, the report considers the experience of USAID's Environmental Health Project in designing an initiative to install and maintain appropriate excreta and...Read more
Regional focus: 
JamaicaLatin America and the Caribbean

American Refugee Committee: Mozambique Program 1993-1996: Final Program Report

Published: 
October 1, 1996
U.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
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

American Refugee Committee, Tete Province, Mozambique: Final Evaluation Report

Published: 
September 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
In August 1996 a team of two consultants were hired to conduct an independent evaluation of the American Refugee Committee Program in Tete Province, Mozambique. The program started in 1993 and ran for aperiod of 3 years. The overall goal of the program was to improve the health of approximately 140...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Sofala Province Integrated Health, Water and Sanitation Project: Final Report

Published: 
January 1, 1996
U.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
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Water And Sanitation Health Education Program Summary: Urgench and Beruniy, Uzbekistan

Published: 
December 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
The direction of the Environmental Policy and Technology Project was initiated to provide assistance to the Central Asian Republics in fostering regional cooperation in the Aral Sea region. Assistance is administer under the auspices of USAID with a focus to provide: potable water and public health...Read more
Regional focus: 
Uzbekistan

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