Ensuring access to safe and sufficient water and sanitation and hygiene promotion in schools has great potential to improve health and education and... Read more...
Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...
Sharing a sanitation facility with just one to two other households can increase the risk of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in young children,... Read more...
Behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks can explain half of global mortality and more than one-third of global DALYs... Read more...
This paper describes a study which took place in two villages in north-east district of Botswana from July 1990 through July 1991. Read more...
Hand washing with soap and water can prevent the spread of diarrhoeal diseases in areas where comparatively costly interventions, such as supply of... Read more...
A "non-blind" randomized hand washing intervention study was conducted in a low socioeconomic community in Rangoon to determine if hand... Read more...
Sixty-five mothers from Balai Lua, Central Lombok, Indonesia were given soap and an explanation of the faecal oral route of diarrhoea transmission. Read more...