October 15, 2019
By: Sian White, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Wash’Em is a process for designing hygiene behaviour change programmes in humanitarian crises. Through several years of research with crisis-affected populations we realised that current approaches hygiene promotion activities are not actually changing behaviour. Typical […]
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October 15, 2019
By: Om Prasad Gautam, WaterAid This article was originally posted on WaterAid’s website here. Reposted with permission. Why are we so off track on increasing the number of people globally who wash their hands? Who is having their access to good hygiene denied? For Global […]
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October 14, 2019
By: Martin Shouler, Arup and Sian White, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine For those living in informal settlements as a result of humanitarian crises, diseases such as cholera, pneumonia and diarrhoea can spread quickly and with fatal results. Handwashing with soap is our […]
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October 14, 2019
By: Wendy Putnam and Nga Nguyen, USAID This post was originally posted on globalwaters.org. Reposted with permission. While handwashing has been acknowledged as a way to prevent the spread of infection, experts agree that we still aren’t making enough progress on increasing uptake of this […]
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October 14, 2019
By: Adam Drolet and Laura Kallen, PATH Primum non nocere. First, do no harm. This phrase, espoused in the Hippocratic Oath, serves as the bedrock for the provision of medical care. Yet, for too many individuals and families who visit health care facilities, this tenet […]
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