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...
Fifty-seven mothers in Indonesia were involved in a face-to-face health education which encouraged hand-washing with soap. The intervention spanned 4... Read more...
This article examines the perceptions of cleanliness and the role of soap and hand washing in two poor Bangladeshi communities, one rural and one... Read more...
The efficacy of handwashing using ash, soap, mud or plain water was tested in a group of 20 women living in a slum of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Read more...
To understand the roles of specific maternal and domestic hygiene practices in preventing diarrhoea, 611 rural children aged under 5 years in... Read more...
This article describes a community-based hygiene intervention in five villages of lowland Bangladesh which was developed with the active... Read more...
Water shortage was a major reason why handwashing was not practised in a highland village in Guatemala. A water-saving device, the plastic 'tippy tap... Read more...
A handwashing study involving 20 women from a low-income community in Dhaka revealed that soap, mud and ash were equally effective in reducing... Read more...