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...
Between January 1987 and March 1988 a health impact evaluation (HIE) of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (RWSSP) was conducted in... 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...
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...
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...
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...
This article discusses the potential of communications for promoting sustainable development in both the South and the North. 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...