Posts Tagged ‘sanitation’
WASH 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…
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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 MoreOh crap, challenges to universal sanitation by 2030
By Bonnie Leko-Shapiro, Consultant, Global Health Council World Toilet Day is tomorrow November 19. In the intersection of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and global health, this is a significant opportunity to highlight the critical need for better sanitation around the world. A new report, Overflowing Cities, The State of the World’s Toilets 2016, from…
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 MoreThe Fundamental Question About Water
By Hope Randall, Communications Associate, Defeat Diarrheal Disease (DefeatDD) Initiative, PATH. This blog was cross-posted from the Huffington Post. “What can we do without water?” In Nthalire, a remote, dusty village in Malawi, a school teacher asks the obvious question in a classroom with too many empty desks. People are remarkably resilient in less-than-ideal circumstances, but it…
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…
Read MoreG8 Talks the Talk But Does Not Meet Prior Pledges
L’AQUILA, Italy — The G8 released its communiqué on health, water and sanitation commitments to Africa last night and, as I predicted in yesterday’s blog, the non-governmental organization (NGO) community here is not impressed. But neither are they surprised. The communique largely reaffirms previous promises, at which the G8 has become quite accomplished. There are some things we at…
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