July 15, 2015
Hygiene—specifically handwashing with soap—is one of the most important interventions for human health and development and is a universal necessity. Fundamental to fighting undernutrition, reducing child mortality, overcoming antibiotic resistance, and advancing access to education, hygiene underpins the delivery of several other Sustainable Development Goals […]
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July 1, 2015
The omission of hygiene from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has inhibited the international community in delivering fully on aspirations for sanitation, health, nutrition, education, and gender equity. With the MDG deadline rapidly approaching, this is an apt moment for the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme […]
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June 17, 2015
“If a child find his mother preparing food without washing hands, or coming from latrine and does not wash hands, he can tell her to wash hands. This would be a very useful advice.” – Schoolteacher, Tanzania.1 Many global health behavior change programs […]
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June 4, 2015
The PPPHW was very busy at AfricaSan4, held May 25-27 in Dakar, Senegal. Make sure you don’t miss any of the presentations, summaries, or blog posts from this important conference. Materials from PPPHW-hosted sessions Written summary of the Regional Handwashing Think Tank Presentations from the […]
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June 3, 2015
At the AfricaSan4 conference for Sanitation and Hygiene, held in Dakar, Senegal in May 2015, the unofficial theme was dignity, so it is apt that when it came to naming AfricaSan’s Ministerial Declaration for Water and Sanitation, it was called Ngor, meaning dignity in Wolof, […]
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May 28, 2015
On Monday, the PPPHW Secretariat and partners began the week at AfricaSan with our Handwashing Think Tank, so it was fitting that we concluded the conference on Wednesday by delivering a session on Moving Hygiene to Scale. In the Think Tank we dived in to three big ideas in hygiene promotion […]
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May 27, 2015
“Rights must inform policies and political discourse, not the other way around.” This quote, from a session on sustainability in sanitation sums up a key sentiment that I heard refrained again and again on Tuesday. If the common thread on Monday at AfricaSan was equality, […]
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May 25, 2015
This week, as you may know, the Secretariat of the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing is in Dakar, Senegal for AfricaSan. We arrived in Dakar early Sunday morning, and after a quick nap, I ventured out to explore the city as it went through its […]
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May 19, 2015
AfricaSan is May 25-27, and the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing will be hosting two events on hygiene and behavior change. Join us! The PPPHW Handwashing Behavior Change Think Tank Monday 25 May from 5:40-7:20 PM Room C12 At this event we will bring together […]
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May 5, 2015
When we talk about handwashing, we tend to think about washing our hands at home or in schools, but we must also think about hand hygiene in healthcare. Hand hygiene is the entrance door to strengthening healthcare systems and delivery. Currently, every year millions of […]
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