WASHplus HIV/AIDS presentations and links to latest blog posts

[Dan Campbell]

Below are links to WASHplus presentations and links to the latest posts to the WASHplus Innovation blog and research updates:

Presentations

International AIDS Conference July 2012

• Julia Rosenbaum and Renuka Bery, both from WASHplus, presented on a panel entitled Poop and People/Taps and Toilets: Community-Based Approaches to Meeting the Most Basic Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Needs of Families Affected by HIV. (Link, pdf)
   

• Renuka Bery, WASHplus, presented at a satellite session on Integrated Approaches, Local Solutions:  Integrating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene into HIV Programming as an Effective Strategy to Improve Lives, Uptake of Services, and Key Health Outcomes. (Link, pdf)

INNOVATION EXCHANGE

• SAB Foundation announces finalists for 2nd Annual Innovation Awards
• Indian toilet scheme wins Geneva global innovation award
• Innovations in sanitary pads from water hyacinths

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION UPDATES

• Assessment of Adoption of Improved Cookstove Practices in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• A smoke-free kitchen: initiating community based co-production for cleaner cooking
• Social, Economic, and Resource Predictors of Variability in Household Air Pollution from Cookstove Emissions

• HOUSEHOLD DRINKING WATER QUALITY UPDATES

• Impact of a Hygiene Curriculum and the Installation of Simple Handwashing and Drinking Water Stations
• Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections and Correlated Risk Factors
• Comparison of different solar reactors for household disinfection of drinking water in developing countries
• Risk reduction assessment of waterborne Salmonella and Vibrio by a chlorine contact disinfectant
• Microbiological effectiveness of mineral pot filters in Cambodia
• Daniele Lantagne discusses sustainable water treatment implementation

• URBAN HEALTH UPDATES

  • The Guardian: Surviving off rubbish in Kenya’s slums – in pictures
  • Barefoot army behind NGO’s award-winning research on city slums
  • The effects of handling solid waste on the wellbeing of informal and organized recyclers

• • SANITATION UPDATES

    • Diarrhea and dengue control in rural primary schools in Colombia
    • Hi-tech toilets save lives – and mean big business
    • Worms Clean Toxic Metals from Indian Soil
    • “We don’t talk about it at all !” The taboo of menstruation in rural Maharashtra

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Dan Campbell, Knowledge Resources Specialist

WASHplus Project

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