Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...
An information guide to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in schools, health care facilities, the workplace, orphanages, prisons, refugee... Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
A study on sanitation-related psychosocial stress among Indian women in Odisha finds that: Sanitation-behaviors are more expansive than urination and... Read more...
This fact sheet explains why institutional water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) should be part of the post-2015 development agenda. It includes... 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...
Stronger advocacy is needed for better water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in schools, health centres, workplaces and prisons. Read more...
International consultations on targets and indicators for post-2015 WaSH identified non-household settings as a priority, but not all countries are... Read more...
Simavi is using integrated approaches in the MKAJI programme in Tanzania's Dodoma Region. Read more...
This evidence gap map (EGM) provides access to the best available evidence on the outcomes of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions and... Read more...
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands. Read more...
A third of health care facilities in the developing world don't even have water and soap for handwashing. A shameful situation that can be overcome with simple solutions and global action. Read more...
In rural Cambodia newborns risk infections both in health centres and at home because hygiene is poor and water and sanitation facilities are unsafe... Read more...
This briefing note introduces WaterAid's advocacy campaign "Healthy Start on improving the health and nutrition of newborn babies and children... Read more...
Drawing on data on from 54 low- and middle-income countries on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in health care facilities, the report... Read more...
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
While the importance of hygiene is increasingly being recognized, far less consideration has been given to the role of the complete WASH package in... Read more...
Key websites and background documents on institutional WASH: WASH in schools; health centres; WASH at the work place; and WASH in prisons. Read more...