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New Post Sustaining Sanitation and Hygiene in Madagascar: the Impact of the Pandemic

July 14, 2020

By: Hoby Randrianimanana This interview was originally posted on WSSCC’s website.  ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – Dr Fano Randriamanantsoa is the Community Mobilization Specialist at the Fonds d’Appui pour l’Assainissement (FAA), WSSCC’s Global Sanitation Fund programme in Madagascar. A medical doctor by training, Fano Randriamanantsoa has worked in […]

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New Post In Nigeria, Doctors Turn to Basic Hygiene to Slow Covid-19

July 3, 2020

By: Elena Bruess As the coronavirus pandemic spreads through Africa’s most populous country, a health foundation pushes for better access to water, sanitation and hygiene. Otun Adewale recounts the story of two doctors in a private hospital in Abuja, Nigeria. One who washes his hands […]

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New Post How I Found My Way to Advocating for Safe Water and Sanitation in Nigeria and Beyond

June 23, 2020

By: Her Excellency Toyin Saraki, founder-president of Wellbeing Foundation Africa This article was originally posted on Global Citizen.  In African traditional folklore, we have a proverb: “Every dance starts with a clap.” Just watch us and you’ll find this proverb is indeed true. We clap at […]

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New Post Without WASH, Health Workers Can’t Do Their Jobs

June 16, 2020

By: Lindsay Denny, Global Water 2020 This post was originally posted as a Frontline Health Workers Coalition blog.  The hospital—a referral hospital in Bahir Day, Ethiopia—served a population of 25 million. Dozens of mothers gave birth daily, some of whom were sent from other facilities […]

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New Post NGO provides sanitary pads to girls in Nairobi slum during COVID-19 lockdown

June 16, 2020

By: Kevin Mwanza This post was originally posted on WSSCC’s website.  NAIROBI, Kenya – In Nairobi’s Korogocho slums, the sudden closure of schools in March was a double tragedy for 15-year-old Consolata. It meant she would lose out not only on learning, but also on free […]

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New Post No regrets: integrating hygiene and immunisation on the frontlines of disease prevention

June 5, 2020

By: Julie Truelove and Katie Tobin, WaterAid This post was originally posted on WaterAid’s WASH Matters.  As global health donors gather virtually for Gavi’s Global Vaccine Summit on 4 June, hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Julie Truelove and Katie Tobin make the case for why […]

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New Post The hospitals where doctors can’t wash their hands

May 19, 2020

By: Rebecca Root This article was originally posted on Devex. BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Hand-washing is the first line of defense against COVID-19 and many other diseases. Yet 1 in 4 health care centers around the world has no hand-washing facilities, and in the lowest-income countries, […]

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New Post The most momentus day in a century for the midwives: We must applaud midwives with WASH

May 5, 2020

By: H.E. Toyin Saraki, Wellbeing Foundation Africa Today, on 5th May, we celebrate the most momentous day in a century for the midwifery profession, the International Day of The Midwife, in the first ever Year of the Midwife, as the world is currently at a […]

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New Resource What key principles should we use to guide our coronavirus hygiene programming ?

April 29, 2020

By: Sian White, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine This article was originally posted on the COVID-19 Hygiene Hub.  There is not one standardised approach to coronavirus response and context adaptation is important. Irrespective of what your organisation decides to do we recommend that […]

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New Post Lessons on hygiene behaviour change from La Mosquitia, Honduras

April 27, 2020

By: David Weatherill, CAWST This article was originally posted on CAWST.  To learn about hygiene and handwashing behaviour in the Department of Gracias a Dios, Pure Water for the World Honduras and CAWST partnered with UNICEF to complete a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) study […]

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