Recent updates to environmental health website and new publications

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Below are links to some recently published studies and manuals and website updates:

USAID Hygiene Improvement Project

USAID POUZN Project

  • Introducing Zinc through the Private Sector in Nepal for theTreatment of Childhood Diarrhea: Results and Lessons Learned, May 2009. Integrating the new WHO/UNICEF-recommended diarrhea treatment protocols of administering zinc alongside ORS (oral rehydration salts) for pediatric diarrheas, given competing priorities, has been a challenge for ministries of health worldwide. In 2005, the Ministry of Health in Nepal took up this challenge, creating a Zinc Task Force and requesting USAID assistance through both public and private sector programs to reinforce their own efforts. http://www.psp-one.com/content/resource/detail/5280/

Environmental Health at USAID

DFID

 
Home Hygiene & Health

  • The global burden of hygiene-related diseases in relation to the home and community, June, 2009. Author(s) SF Bloomfield; M Exner; GM Fara; KJ Nath; EA Scott; C Van der Voorden. The report draws together data on the global incidence and prevalence of hygiene-related infectious diseases focusing on the spread of these diseases in the home and family. The report illustrates what the benefits could be in terms of improving global health and well-being, if we could motivate people to take more responsibility for preventing the transmission of ID in their own home through better hygiene practice. It also evaluates the various factors which are shaping current trends in these infectious diseases. The report covers both developed and developing countries and compiles data from epidemiological and microbiological studies. The report was drafted by Professor Bloomfield. It was then submitted to the other members of the IFH Scientific Advisory Board to discuss and develop the review, and agree on final content.       
    <    http://www.ifh-homehygiene.org/IntegratedCRD.nsf/861f122a098364b98025750800643950/29858AA006FAAA22802572970064B6E8/$File/The%20global%20burden%20of%20hygiene-related%20diseases%20in%20relation%20to%20the%20home%20and%20community.pdf>     

ICDRB

  • Technical and Social Evaluation of Arsenic Mitigation in Rural Bangladesh,  Jnl Health, Population and Nutrition, forthcoming article. Authors: Md. Shafiquzzaman, Md. Shafiul Azam, Iori Mishima, and Jun Nakajima
    http://www.icddrb.org/images/1213-Shafiquzzaman.pdf  492.4 KB

  • An Outbreak of Cholera Associated with an Unprotected Well in Parbatia, Orissa, Eastern India. Jnl Health, Population and Nutrition, forthcoming article. Authors: Amitav Das, P. Manickam, Yvan Hutin, B.B. Pal, G.P. Chhotray, S.K. Kar, and M.D. Gupte
    http://www.icddrb.org/images/1165-Amitav_Das.pdf   434.4 KB

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

  • The Triple-S Initiative: 2008 to 2014. The International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) is leading a six-year multicountry learning initiative to improve water supply to the rural poor. Sustainable Services at Scale (or Triple-S) is an initiative seeking to support a move away from project-based, stand-alone implementation of water systems to indefinitely sustainable rural water services delivered at scale. ery. The initiative will start in pilot districts in Uganda and Ghana, and later seek to expand to a further two countries in Africa and Asia up until 2014. http://www.irc.nl/content/download/143834/457759/file/TripleSFactSheet%20V1.pdf

SANDEC

UNICEF/WES

  • 10 Sanitation Stories: Case Studies from Around the World

1. Egypt: Empowered for good: Children in Upper Egypt change environment and sanitation habits
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/1_case_study_EGYPT_web.pdf>

2. India: SWASTHH: India’s ‘clean school and village’ movement
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/2_case_study_INDIA_web.pdf>

3. Senegal: ‘Building for life’—in the midst of civil insurgency
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/3_case_study_SENEGAL_final2_web.pdf>

4. Bolivia: A new-fangled device arrives in the Bolivian Altiplano: the toilet
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/4_case_study_BOLIVIA_final_web.pdf>

5. Cambodia: A Cambodian village decides to bring sanitation closer to home
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/5_case_study_CAMBODIA_final_web.pdf>

6. Zambia: Chief Macha’s toilet revolution
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/6_case_study_ZAMBIA_final_web.pdf>

7. Nepal: School-led total sanitation seems unstoppable
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/7_case_study_NEPAL_4web.pdf>

8. Sierra Leone: Singing about the unmentionable
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/8_case_study_SIERRA_LEONE_4web.pdf>

9. Nicaragua: ‘Being dirty had to end’
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/9_case_study_NICARAGUA_4web.pdf>

10. Bangladesh: Tackling menstrual hygiene taboos
[PDF] <http://www.unicef.org/wash/files/10_case_study_BANGLADESH_4web.pdf>

Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)

  • WSP has produced a short animated film, The Story of Younis, depicting a barefoot sanitation consultant using the principles of CLTS to empower and motivate the village to improve their sanitation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqveDg9VZg

WaterAid

  • Water and Sanitation for People Living with HIV and AIDS: Exploring the Challenges, 2009. This briefing paper is part of a collaborative research project conducted by WaterAid Tanzania and Amref in Tanzania to explore the water and sanitation needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and investigate the issues around their access to these facilities. http://www.wateraid.org/documents/plugin_documents/wateraid_and_amref_briefing_paper_1.pdf

  • Access to Water and Sanitation for People Living with HIV and AIDS: An Exploratory Study, 2009. This study was a collaborative research project conducted by WaterAid Tanzania and Amref in Tanzania to explore the water and sanitation needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and investigate the issues around their access to these facilities. http://www.wateraid.org/documents/plugin_documents/wateraid_and_amref_full_report.pdf

  • Fatal neglect: How health systems are failing to comprehensively address child mortality, 2009. New paper from WaterAid arguing that to reduce under-five deaths by two-thirds and therefore meet Millennium Development Goal Four, the aid system must target its resources to diseases that are killing the most children – such as diarrhoea.  http://www.wateraid.org/documents/plugin_documents/wateraid_fatal_neglect.pdf

 
WHO/Environmental Health

  • Calcium and Magnesium in Drinking-water: Public health significance, 2009. Can calcium and magnesium (‘hardness’) in drinking water contribute to preventing disease? This book documents the outputs of an unprecedented group of experts assembled by the World Health Organization to address this question. It includes their comprehensive consensus view on what is known and what is not about the role and possible health benefit of calcium and magnesium in drinking-water. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241563550_eng.pdf (pdf, 1.13MB)

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Dan Campbell, Web Manager
Environmental Health at USAID
1611 North Kent St., Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22209
Ph: 703-247-8722
Email: dcam...@usaid.gov  
Environmental Health at USAID: http://www.ehproject.org
IRC/USAID Sanitation Updates: http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com
Urban Health Updates: http://urbanhealthupdates.wordpress.com
Cholera Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/cholera-control
Household Water Treatment Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/household-water-treatment

 


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