Posts Tagged ‘hygiene’
Twenty Seconds that Saves Lives and Economies: Handwashing and Water in a Time of COVID-19
Organized by USAID Twenty Seconds that Saves Lives and Economies: Handwashing and Water in a Time of COVID-19 October 14, 2020 RSVP Without reliable access to water billions of people are unable to heed the advice of public health officials to wash their hands to prevent COVID-19 spread. Please save the date for a Global…
Read MoreWASH During COVID-19: What We Know So Far
Organized by InterAction WASH During COVID-19: What We Know So Far September 15, 2020 RSVP InterAction’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Working Group, in coordination with the new International Water and Sanitation Caucus, invites you to the inaugural Caucus event, “WASH During COVID-19: What We Know So Far.” Featuring remarks from International Water and Sanitation…
Read MoreStakeholder Community Meeting on Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Food, Nutrition and Water Security
Organized by USAID Stakeholder Community Meeting on Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Food, Nutrition and Water Security July 30, 2020 RSVP Join us in our next discussion on July 30, in which we will be exploring how we can mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on global food, nutrition and water security, including through improved…
Read MoreOrganizations Make WASH a Top Priority
By Andrew Cooney, Global Health Council In the wake of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), great strides were made in the area of improved access to clean water. However, this success did not, unfortunately, translate when it came to sanitation and hygiene.[i] As a result, last year when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were developed, a…
Read MoreWater Failures Are Putting the World’s Health at Risk
This op-ed was cross-posted from TIME Magazine, and written by Dr. Christine Sow, President and Executive Director of GHC, and Susan Barnett, Founder of Faiths for Safe Water ‘This is not an expensive, high-tech problem; it’s a problem of prioritization’ The world reacted in horror and indignation this week when a reporter posted a photo of a…
Read MoreWaterAid leads effort to provide water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities in Mali
This success story was provided by GHC member, WaterAid In January 2015, with the support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and in partnership with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WaterAid began a three-year initiative to improve access to drinking water and sanitation in rural healthcare facilities in…
Read MoreMember Spotlight: ASTMH
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor. By the numbers: Founding: 1903 Staff: 4 Full Time, 4 Part Time Members: Approximately 3,500 members located in 91…
Read MoreTo Improve 7 Billion Lives, One Hand Washes the Other
J&J Director of Contributions on the importance of leveraging the simple intervention of handwashing to achieve health outcomes: A colleague of mine recently wrote about a woman in Nicaragua who went in search of a small loan, and ended up being treated for cervical cancer, because a microcredit organization arranged for a health screening to coincide with…
Read MoreDo You Know Your Poo IQ?
Lisa Schechtman, from WaterAid America, organized a sanitation related scavenger hunt at this week’s Conference. Lisa Schechtman, from End Water Poverty member WaterAid in America, shares with us a great creative idea for campaigning, and livening up a conference at the same time. Check out how she and others organized a sanitation related scavenger hunt…
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