tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59065082011-07-28T17:58:13.999-04:00Environmental Health BlogThe Environmental Health Project Information Center sponsors this blog, providing current information and resources links on household water treatment, sanitation, hygiene promotion, prevention and treatment of diarrheal diseases, and prevention and control of malaria and other waterborne diseases. EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1086901482890471092004-06-10T16:59:00.000-04:002004-06-17T16:28:49.426-04:00New EHP Reports:
Two new Environmental Health Project reports are available on the EHP website.
Strategic Report 9:
Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation for Hygiene Improvement, Beyond the Toolbox: What else is required for effective PM&E? A Literature Review.
Prepared for EHP by Judi Aubel, May 2004.
This literature review examines existing methods and tools for monitoring hygiene EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1085691451084560172004-05-27T16:49:00.000-04:002004-06-01T17:32:52.483-04:00The Water Challenge, one of world's ten 'biggest concerns'
Frank Rijsberman, Director General, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka, and professor of water education in The Netherlands has authored a paper on world water and sanitation issues for Copenhagen Consensus 2004.
The Water Challenge:
Lack of access to basic water supply and sanitation services has a broad range of EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1084303498070893592004-05-11T15:20:00.000-04:002004-05-13T18:21:17.626-04:00Meeting Announcements:
The Environmental Health Project will present
Advancing Environmental Health for Disease Prevention:
Past Experiences and Future Priorities
What: Global Health Council Conference Auxiliary Event*
When: Tuesday, June 1, 2004, 1:30-3:30 pm
Where: Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC, Congressional Rooms A & B
Share end-of-project lessons learned from EHP field EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1083089673571511872004-04-27T14:14:00.000-04:002004-04-28T13:40:31.340-04:00News~
(Click on organization name for link to website.)
USAID and Partners Form a $5 Million
Alliance for Safe Drinking Water:
Safe Drinking Water Alliance Launched at the United Nations
NEW YORK, April 22, 2004. A strategic public-private collaboration devoted to ensuring safe drinking water was officially launched today at the United Nations' Commission on Sustainable Development meetingEHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1082472169424661502004-04-20T10:42:00.000-04:002004-04-20T15:11:52.373-04:00Recently Published Books ~
(Titles link to publisher website)
Diarrhea: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
January 2004
List Price: $58.95
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: ICON Health Publications
ISBN: 0597838860
In addition to a structured and comprehensive bibliography, this medical reference on diarrhea provides links to reliable EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1080250292574698932004-03-25T16:31:00.000-05:002004-04-01T11:33:33.390-05:00NEWS - (Titles Link to Full Text)
International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) sponsors new website
Since World Water Day 2004, IRC has sponsored Wiki WatSan Net, a collaborative website for water users, by water users.
IRC invites visitors to post their own stories, comments, links, or other contributions, and help decide how this collective body of knowledge on topics in WATer, EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1077657738631655032004-02-24T16:22:00.000-05:002004-04-28T10:12:07.920-04:00Announcements -
Call for Papers:
The International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) is pleased to announce the Third International Conference on Water Resources Management, which will be held April 11-13, 2005, at the Tivoli Almansor Hotel in Algarve, Portugal.
Conference papers will be reviewed by members of the ISAC and other colleagues, and if selected, will be published in hardcoverEHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1077052816661948412004-02-17T16:20:00.000-05:002004-02-17T16:41:23.840-05:00News - (Click on Titles for Full-Text)
New Upsurge of Cholera in Maputo
February 17, 2004, Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique
The Cholera Treatment Centre has seen about 6,000 patients since the outbreak began in late December.
Pregnant Women at Risk of Contracting Malaria
February 17, 2004, BuaNews (Pretoria)
Maternal malaria increases the risk of spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, premature EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1075490357017487502004-01-30T14:19:00.000-05:002004-02-15T10:15:51.826-05:00News
Ethiopia - Malaria Transmission Seasonable and Unstable
Addis Ababa)
January 23, 2004
Malaria transmission in Ethiopia is mainly seasonal and unstable in character. However, there are areas where malaria is transmitted throughout the year.
Zambia: Government Acts to Contain Cholera
January 30, 2004
Zambian authorities are considering tough measures to contain a cholera outbreak which hasEHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1075490229990866152004-01-30T14:17:00.000-05:002004-01-30T14:19:23.606-05:00New Reports
WSP - Water Utility Partnership ToolkitEHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1075489601644200392004-01-30T14:06:00.000-05:002004-01-30T14:08:55.390-05:00Recent Newsletters - (Click on title for Full-Text)
EHP - EHP News, January 2004EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1074877745998815092004-01-23T12:09:00.000-05:002004-01-23T12:34:24.576-05:00News - (Click on Title for Full-Text)
Making Way for Designer Insects: Risks and Benefits of Gene-Altered Bugs Merit Thorough Study, Report Says
Washington Post - Jan 22, 2004
Malaria sickens more than 300 million people a year and kills more than a million ... many of them babies in Africa, so any technology that brought it under control ...
Reducing Vitamin Deficiency Can Improve World EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1074874228980224122004-01-23T11:10:00.000-05:002004-01-23T11:48:37.186-05:00New Journals - (Click on Titltes for Full-Text)
WHO Bulletin - Volume 82, Number 1, January 2004
In This Month's Bulletin
Polio and immune deficiency disorders; Vaccine-derived polio: lessons learned; Which post-polio immunization policy?; Challenges to polio-free certification
Environmental Health Perspectives - January 2004
The malaria-induced fever of a young child in Thailand is treated EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1074873288297934402004-01-23T10:54:00.000-05:002004-01-23T12:35:48.153-05:00New Reports (Click on Titles for Full-Text)
EHP - West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI) Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, Program Framework and Indicators
EHP - Cairo Healthy Neighborhood Program: Situation Analysis with Literature Review and Stakeholder Meetings, ANE Urban Health Initiative and USAID/Egypt/PHN
UNICEF - Vitamin and mineral deficiency, a global damage assessment EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1073683196125078832004-01-09T16:19:00.000-05:002004-01-12T09:51:31.920-05:00News - (Click on Titles for Full-Text)
Lack of Clean Water Linked with Stunted Growth
Fri 9 January, 2004 20:26
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poor access to clean water and good sanitation is associated with poor growth in children, researchers said Friday.
Among children living in a poor community in Peru, those who had the poorest access to clean water and sanitation were 1 centimeter shorter EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1073591756020863622004-01-08T14:55:00.000-05:002004-01-09T15:58:57.020-05:00News (Click on Titles for Full-Text)
Safe Water Handling Key in Controlling Cholera
"Providing a safe water source can be insufficient to prevent cholera transmission if the means for safe transport and storage of water are not available," the investigators emphasize. SOURCE: Clinical Infectious Diseases, January 2004.
India News - Grow rice, spawn fish to fight malaria
Fish in ponds and rice EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1073506446418691012004-01-07T15:14:00.000-05:002004-01-08T16:19:32.436-05:00Recent Publications
IRC - 43 papers submitted at the Sixth Water Information Summit at IRC in September 2003.
UNICEF - Waterfront Fall 2003
Safe water and sanitation as a basic human right, household water treatment, rainwater harvesting ... and reports from Kyoto, Madagascar, Uzbekistan, Guinea and other countries around the world.
NEIHS - Environmental Health Perspectives, January 2004
This EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1073506097765257012004-01-07T15:08:00.000-05:002004-01-08T16:19:46.970-05:00Project/Website Updates
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Website
The WSP website has a new design and features.
IDRC - Making Plans for Success: The Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project
TEHIP grew out of the World Bank's World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health, which suggested that providing packages of essential health interventions to 80% of the population of EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1073053688925049742004-01-02T09:28:00.000-05:002004-01-02T10:03:43.923-05:00Conferences (Click on titles for full-text)
CDC - Women and Infectious Diseases - From Science to Action, Atlanta, Georgia, February 27-28, 2004EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1073052515834318882004-01-02T09:08:00.000-05:002004-01-02T10:03:23.283-05:00Recent Publications
EHP - Malaria Epidemic Forecasting and Preparedness Manual
IRC - Financing and Cost Recovery
WSP - Desinfección Solar del Agua: Guía de aplicación
WHO - Draft third edition of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water QualityEHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1072815646902608442003-12-30T15:20:00.000-05:002004-01-02T10:00:35.536-05:00Recent News
Repeated Bouts of Diarrhea Affect Kids' IQ
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Repeated episodes of severe diarrhea in early childhood may have permanent effects on brain development, new research reports.
VOA News - Experts Say Control of Malaria-Carrying Mosquitos Can be Simple
Mosquitoes that carry the deadly malaria parasite might be breeding right outside your front door. Researchers EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071764939026207872003-12-18T11:28:00.000-05:002003-12-18T11:31:10.166-05:00Send an Email if you wish to post news or announcements on the Environmental Health Blog.
New Reports (Click on titles for full-text)
WHO - World Health Report 2003: Shaping the Future
18 December 2003 -- Launched today, The world health report 2003 - shaping the future, highlights the urgent need for investment and international support to strengthen the failing health care systems of most EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071610552320612922003-12-16T16:35:00.000-05:002003-12-18T11:29:33.196-05:00News
WSSCC - WASH Week and WASH Partnership Meeting: Action planning for the water and sanitation MDGs
As a follow on to last October, the WASH Week in December 2003 will take place with around 200 of WSSCC's supporters, representatives and strategic partners. The theme for this year's WASH Partnership meeting is Action Planning, and the meeting aims to achieve consensus on a range of effective EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071602999912736042003-12-16T14:29:00.000-05:002003-12-16T16:36:43.830-05:00New Blogs
Waterblogger - Experiences as a water and sanitation engineer in GuatemalaEHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071583226847503402003-12-16T09:00:00.000-05:002003-12-16T14:40:42.763-05:00New Reports
WHO - Climate Change and Human Health – Risks and Responses
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners are launching a major new study of the health impacts of climate change. The study examines, for example, how weather, air pollution, and water and food contamination affect the way diseases emerge. It further suggests effective means for all countries to monitor and control EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071583084684230372003-12-16T08:58:00.000-05:002003-12-16T14:41:06.386-05:00News
Earth Negotiation Bulletin - SUMMARY OF THE PAN-AFRICAN IMPLEMENTATION AND PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE ON WATER: 8-12 DECEMBER 2003
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) at its eleventh session (CSD-11) invited the United Nations Regional Commissions to consider organizing regional implementation meetings to contribute to the work of the CSD. In response to this invitation, the UN EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071517975111748372003-12-15T14:52:00.000-05:002003-12-16T09:00:18.853-05:00New Reports/Bulletins
EHP Library Malaria Bulletin 73: December 1-14, 2003
This issue contains citations and abstracts to 40+ recently published malaria studies.
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071265013451579572003-12-12T16:36:00.000-05:002003-12-12T16:37:06.206-05:00EHP Information Center - An Annotated Bibliography on Diarrheal Diseases and Water/Sanitation - 2003
Contains citations and abstracts of 33 studies published in 2003.EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071264885889477792003-12-12T16:34:00.000-05:002003-12-12T16:34:58.646-05:00Updated Websites
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Welcome to our new site. This site aims to enable sharing of information and collaboration among professionals in the water and santitation sector. Regular visitors of the old IRC site will notice a different design, colours and structure.
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071153925103995872003-12-11T09:45:00.000-05:002003-12-11T09:47:16.250-05:00New Reports
UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2004
The State of the World’s Children 2004 focuses on girls’ education and its relationship to all other development goals and to the promise of Education For All. EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071064967793038672003-12-10T09:02:00.000-05:002003-12-10T15:45:16.130-05:00News
VOA News - New Fund To help Ensure Water Supplies For Africa - 300 million without access to clean water
A new fund to provide African governments with grants for water projects is about to be launched at a week-long international conference being held in Ethiopia.
ABC News - Venezuela Health Ministry Declares 'National Alert' to Stop Outbreak of Dengue Fever
CARACAS, Venezuela Dec. 10 — EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1071005654561380352003-12-09T16:34:00.000-05:002003-12-10T08:43:03.063-05:00EHP Information Center - Selected Environmental Health Information Resources - 2003
Links to selected journal articles and reports by EHP, WHO and others that were published in 2003.EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070899273076608922003-12-08T11:01:00.000-05:002003-12-16T14:31:14.380-05:00 NSF International Launches Scrub Club(TM) for Children - Handwashing Campaign
PRNewswire/ -- NSF International (NSF) today unveiled its new Clean Hands Across America(TM) campaign, a national initiative to promote handwashing as a simple yet highly effective way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and food-borne illnesses. The public health campaign kicks off during National EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070643932034495082003-12-05T12:05:00.000-05:002003-12-08T11:02:02.136-05:00New Reports
IDRC - Health: An Ecosystem Approach
Reconciling an ecosystem’s health with the health of its human inhabitants is a new area of research, requiring input from scientists, community and interest groups, and decision-makers. This book describes this new approach, providing lessons and recommendations from various IDRC-supported research activities. EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070642821666061882003-12-05T11:47:00.000-05:002003-12-05T11:47:12.436-05:00New Websites
WHO/AFRO - Environmental Health Policy in Africa
The Environmental Health Policy (EHP) programme aims to assist countries in their endeavor to realizing the achievement of sustainable development by creating an environment conducive to health through the development and formulation of Environmental Health Policy and strengthening/development of their capacities to render sound EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070460406613925892003-12-03T09:06:00.000-05:002003-12-05T12:06:31.826-05:00New Websites
UN - Millennium Indicators Database
Goals, targets and indicators - A framework of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development goals was adopted by a consensus of experts from the United Nations Secretariat and IMF, OECD and the World Bank. Target 10. Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070402043312825982003-12-02T16:54:00.000-05:002003-12-03T09:34:42.266-05:00News
Reuters, Nov 27 - Billions Face Water Shortages as Glaciers Melt-WWF
MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - The world's glaciers could melt within a century if global warming (news - web sites) accelerates, leaving billions of people short of water and some islanders without a home, environmentalists said Thursday.
BBC News - Indoor smoke 'kills millions'
Smoke from indoor cooking fires kills one person EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070401107428724782003-12-02T16:38:00.000-05:002003-12-02T16:38:37.436-05:00New/Recent Reports
USAID - Integrated disease surveillance and response: Africa, Aug 2003EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070398267957509372003-12-02T15:51:00.000-05:002003-12-02T16:32:42.800-05:00New Bulletins/Journals
EHP Information Center - Malaria Bulletin 72: Nov. 17-30, 2003
Citations and abstracts to 50+ recently published malaria studies
WHO Bulletin - Volume 81, Number 11, November 2003, 777-854
Using knowledge management to make health systems work; Childhood vaccines and non-specific effects on mortality; Food safety and infant diarrhoea;
Medical spending and health outcome inEHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1070381038100491132003-12-02T11:03:00.000-05:002003-12-02T16:10:55.410-05:00Conferences
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 52nd Annual Meeting, December 3-7, 2003
PAHO/WHO - II International Congress on Dengue and Yellow Fever
(Convention Center, Havana, Cuba, 31 May–3 June 2004)EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1069794121585099082003-11-25T16:02:00.000-05:002003-11-26T10:06:41.840-05:00Recent Reports (Click on title to link to full-text)
WHO - Looking back: Looking ahead: Five decades of challenges and achievements in environmental sanitation and health, 2003.
WHO has always maintained that sanitation is literally the foundation on which a sound public health structure must be built. Over the last 50 years WHO has generated, evaluated and shared new knowledge on safe disposal EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1069278065230820172003-11-20T16:41:00.000-05:002003-11-21T09:50:12.713-05:00News
Afghanistan - NGO Sulabh to help keep Kabul clean
Pacific Institute - Waste Not,Want Not: The Potential for Urban Water Conservation in California
IRD - Malaria: synergy of insecticide mixture applied to mosquito nets against resistant Anopheles
AIDSMAP - HIV/malaria coinfection increases morbidity and mother to child HIV transmission
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa - EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1069256854239028802003-11-19T10:47:00.000-05:002003-11-21T09:42:06.063-05:00New/Updated Websites
JHU - Health Communication Partnership Strengthening public health through strategic communication
WHO- Schistosomiasis, Soil Transmitted Helminths and the 'Partners for Parasite Control' (PPC).
International Year of Freshwater 2003
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1068494227122864612003-11-10T14:57:00.000-05:002003-11-21T09:46:48.230-05:00New Reports
JHU - A Field Guide to Designing a Health Communication Strategy
WSP - Inaugural Ceremony for the Study on The Implementation of National Water Tariff Policy and Development of Water Supply Management Models PDF: 1920KB
World Bank - Water and Sanitation Toolkit in Arabic
FAO - Groundwater Management - The Search for Practical Approaches
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066915637147040822003-10-23T09:27:00.000-04:002003-10-23T10:00:15.436-04:00
WSP - Public-Private Partnerships for Health A Review of Best Practices in the Health Sector, 2003.
PRB - Critical Links: Population, Health, and the Environment, September 2003
The scope, magnitude, and complexity of human impacts on the environment today are unprecedented. Emerging knowledge helps us understand how environmental changes affect human well-being.
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066855226923649612003-10-22T16:40:00.000-04:002003-10-22T16:40:26.523-04:00Study: 60 percent of Asia's children hospitalized for diarrhea infected with rotavirus
Wed Oct 22, MANILA, Philippines
Up to 60 percent of Asian children hospitalized for diarrhea are infected with rotavirus — double the previous estimate, according to a study released Wednesday.
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066764891025210172003-10-21T15:34:00.000-04:002003-10-21T15:34:50.823-04:00BBC News - South Asia's Hygiene in Focus
A conference has begun in Bangladesh on the dismal state of the region's sanitation. Poor people lack access to sanitation It will discuss why millions of children continue to die in the region because of unsanitary practices. Politicians and experts from across South Asia are attending the South Asian Conference on Sanitation (Sacosan).
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066664165952404842003-10-20T11:36:00.000-04:002003-10-20T16:57:57.726-04:00Click on titles to link to full-text
USAID Investments in Drinking Water Supply and Related Activities (308KB PDF)
USAID’s Water Portfolio: Promoting Clean Water and Efficient Use of Freshwater and Coastal Resources (1.184MB PDF)
BBC News - South Asia's hygiene in focus
A conference has begun in Bangladesh on the dismal state of the region's sanitation.
Ghana: Clean hands, healthy life EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066417129499452632003-10-17T14:58:00.000-04:002003-10-17T14:58:48.796-04:00WHO - Emerging issues in water and infectious diseases, 2003
Infectious, water-related diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although a significant proportion of this immense burden of disease is caused by ‘classical’ water-related pathogens, such as typhoid and cholera, newly-recognized pathogens and new strains of established pathogens are being discovered that EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066233259106389972003-10-15T11:51:00.000-04:002003-10-15T11:56:37.740-04:00HABITAT - Water and Sanitation for Cities: A Debate
HABITAT - World Habitat Day 2003 - Water and Sanitation for Cities
Since its inception by the UN General Assembly in 1985, World Habitat Day has been celebrated annually on the first Monday in October.
This year, the global observance was held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Monday 6 October 2003. It will focus on the theme of Water davidnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066226114516867962003-10-15T09:51:00.000-04:002003-10-15T09:55:13.943-04:00Zambia - 10,000 Households, Schools Receive Sanitation Facilities
The Times of Zambia (Ndola) October 7, 2003
OVER 10,000 households and schools were provided with sanitation facilities in 2002 under the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education (WASHE), an envoy has said.
davidnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066165030853859532003-10-14T16:57:00.000-04:002003-10-14T16:57:10.240-04:00ICDDRB - 10th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Diseases and Nutrition
The 10th ASCODD will be held in Dhaka 7 to 9 December 2003. The theme will be Improving child health and nutrition. More information will be posted on the web site as it becomes available. If you would like to be kept informed of developments as they occur, please send an e-mail to ascodd@icddrb.org
EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066164493078011722003-10-14T16:48:00.000-04:002003-10-14T16:48:12.780-04:00WHO - Public health initiative in the central Asian republics (CAR)
Investigation of gastro-intestinal diseases and water supply structures in central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1066162885128187602003-10-14T16:21:00.000-04:002003-10-14T16:59:13.113-04:00PAHO - Water crisis affects 130 million people in the Americas
Washington, DC, October 3, 2003 (PAHO)—In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 130 million people do not have safe drinking water in their homes, and only 86 million are connected to adequate sanitation systems.EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1065793849093391662003-10-10T09:50:00.000-04:002003-10-10T10:18:37.723-04:00News (Click on title to link to news item)
International Trachoma Initiative and Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council Join Forces to Eliminate Preventable Blindness
Yahoo News (press release)
They will also launch an advocacy campaign in 2004 to raise political awareness about the role of WASH issues -- water, sanitation and hygiene...
Wave of Dengue Fever Sweeps India
Reuters, UK. EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1065793225741378322003-10-10T09:40:00.000-04:002003-10-14T16:58:23.930-04:00Full-Text Articles (Click on titles to link to article)
SHORT REPORT: PROXIMITY TO MOSQUITO BREEDING SITES AS A RISK FACTOR FOR CLINICAL MALARIA EPISODES IN AN URBAN COHORT OF UGANDAN CHILDREN Am J Trop Med Hyg 2003 69: 244-246.
DISTRIBUTION OF ANOPHELINE MOSQUITOES IN ERITREA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2003 69: 295-302
ENHANCEMENT OF THE EFFICACY OF A COMBINATION OF MESOCYCLOPS ASPERICORNIS AND EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1065791476747259142003-10-10T09:11:00.000-04:002003-10-10T09:18:44.003-04:00HECA Framework for Action: Draft
The HECA Framework for Action sets out the initial activities and expected achievements of the Alliance.
Pacific Institute - Water Words: Bringing Water Information to the People
The goal is to bring 1000 water libraries of information to people in developing countries.EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906508.post-1065539720471029492003-10-07T11:15:00.000-04:002003-10-10T09:10:57.886-04:00Abstracts of Recent Studies (Click on title to link to abstract)
Effectiveness of feedback for improving case management of malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia - a randomized controlled trial at provincial hospitals in Lao PDR. Trop Med Int Health. 2003 Oct;8(10):901-909.
Hospital waste management and it's probable health effect: a lesson learned from Bangladesh. Indian J Environ Health. 2002 Apr;EHPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16418723741113646074noreply@blogger.com0