Providing good quality water through hand pumps or water taps is not a guarantee that a family is drinking uncontaminated water. Many opportunities... Read more...
Du point de vue des catégories du discours biomédical, notamment ses conceptions de l'hygiène, de la santé et de la maladie, il s'avère que la... Read more...
Du 6 au 8 décembre 1999 s'est tenu à Ndjaména un atelier international organisé par l'Institut Tropical Suisse (ITS) de Bâle sur le thème "... Read more...
La zone des plateaux Batékés se caractérise par une consommation des eaux de pluie. Cependant les réservoirs de stockage utilisés par la population... Read more...
Ouagadougou la capitale du Burkina Faso a abrité du 26 au 28 mai 1998, les journées de synthèse et d'échange sur le thème "Eau potable dans les... Read more...
A l'heure où il est de plus en plus question de la valorisation des ordures ménagères, notamment de la fraction organique dans la double perspective... Read more...
Provides guidelines on low-cost solid waste disposal for small hospitals or health centres in rural areas of developing countries. The article covers... Read more...
The article discusses existing information services on health in developing countries, in particluar the Diarrhoeal Diseases Information Services... Read more...
Between January 1987 and March 1988 a case-control study of the impact of improved water sources on childhood diarrhoea was conducted in Kurunegala... 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...
An epidemiological survey carried out in the Dodoma region of Tanzania found that high rates of trachoma infection in pre-school children were... Read more...