This basic course outlines the evidence base for WASH as a major contributor to health and wider community development. It outlines the key interventions to be implemented, the relative effectiveness of each component on the disease burden....
May 2014: Of all the Millennium Development Goals, the maternal health and sanitation targets are among the farthest off track, said Rebecca Fishman, operations and special projects director of WASH Advocates.
An estimated 800 women die from pregnancy- ....
Dakar, Senegal, May 28, 2014: An interactive map, showing that the governments of 14 African nations were on course or within touching distance of reaching the historic mark of everyone in their countries having access to clean drinking water by 2030, was....
May 15, 2014: World Health Statistics 2014 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and assoc....
Bhubaneshwar, May 15, 2014: Despite Total Sanitation Campaign leading to increase in the number of households with toilet in the State, adoption of proper sanitation practices by the population still remains a far cry.....
New Delhi, May 9, 2014: India still has the largest number of people defecating in open in the world, according to a new United Nations report. The report has prompted the Indian Government to admit it as a "huge shame".....
May 7, 2014: Every year, more people die from water-related illness than all forms of violence combined. Polluted water is deadly, and it is the poor in developing countries, and children in particular, that suffer most from unclean water and inadequate....
