Where one in six child deaths is related to waterborne diseases, USAID is helping communities build sustainable pipe networks. Read more >>
Tag archives for Hygiene
Improving Hygiene for Displaced Syrians
Basic personal hygiene is critical to help prevent the spread of illness and disease among displaced
Syrians. Read more >>
One Year On: Looking Back on Famine and a Smarter Response in the Horn
While the food security conditions in Somalia have improved, our response this past year reflects our understanding of the fragility of the situation Read more >>
Saving Lives, Improving Health with Simple Act of Handwashing with Soap
Studies show that washing hands with soap is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diseases: it can cut deaths from diarrhea by almost half and from acute respiratory infections by a quarter. On Saturday, people across the globe celebrated the fourth annual Global Handwashing Day. Last year, over 200 million people [...]
WASH for Life: Testing Promising Solutions and Scaling Proven Successes in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Dr. Maura O’Neill is the Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Counselor to the Administrator at USAID. In 2008, the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire brought the issue of unsafe sanitation to the silver screen. Audiences cringed as young Jamal is forced to jump into the open pit of feces in which he was previously seen relieving [...]
Making the Unavoidable Unacceptable
Submitted by John Oldfield, Managing Director of the WASH Advocacy Initiative, a nonprofit advocacy effort in Washington DC entirely dedicated to helping solve the global safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) challenge. Its mission is to increase awareness of the global WASH challenge and solutions, and to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources [...]
