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Let’s get wild: Water, sanitation and hygiene at the human-wildlife

WEBThe International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade supports organisations and governments with primary pandemic prevention at the human-wildlife interface. The Alliance is funding 18 projects in 8 countries, some of which integrate water, sanitation and hygiene aspects when tackling health risks in wildlife trade and consumption.

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Menstrual Health and Environmental Intersection: Towards a …

WEBRecently, I gave a presentation focusing on the complex connection between menstrual health and environmental issues. Within the presentation, I explored various crucial facets of this relationship, including the challenges surrounding access and use of reusable menstrual products, the environmental consequences of climate change on menstrual …

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Monitoring Menstrual Health and Hygiene: Measuring …

WEBThere is growing global momentum around addressing menstruation as an important health, education and gender equality issue. However, a critical barrier to making progress on addressing menstruation and the range of girls’ needs around this issue, is the lack of adequate validated measures related to measuring menstruation within global health …

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Sustainable Sanitation Alliance

WEBclose. The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is an informal network of organisations with a common vision on sustainable sanitation. We provide a platform for knowledge exchange, networking and discussion on all sustainable sanitation topics.

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What role can health authorities play in sanitation policy …

WEBThe core functions of health authorities are articulated in recommendation 4 of the guidelines (below) and further detailed in Chapter 4 . ‘ Recommendation 4: The health sector should fulfill core functions to ensure safe sanitation to protect public health. 4.a) Health authorities should contribute to overall coordination of multiple sectors

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Guidelines on Sanitation and Health

WEBSafe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhoea, a major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and death among children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation also …

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Health guidelines and standards for pit emptiers and …

WEBRe: Health guidelines and standards for pit emptiers and exhauster operators. 23 Apr 2012 07:40 #1436. Dear all, my colleague Rahul has shared this tragic video on manual scavengers in India. It illustrates the dire need for enforced standards and sufficient payment of emptiers in order to protect their lifes . …

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Effective Methods for Community Sanitation and Hygiene …

WEBWorld Health Organization data on the burden of disease shows that approximately 3.1% of deaths (1.7 million) and 3.7% (54.2 million) of disability-adjusted-life-years (DALYs) worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene. In Africa and developing countries in South East Asia 4-8% of all disease burdens are attributable to poor …

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Menstrual Hygiene Management

WEBRecent researches show that Afghan women and girls face many challenges in managing their menstrual cycle or menstruation. They do not have access to sufficient facilities and face discriminatory customs and traditions in the family and society. This issue has made it difficult for them to observe proper health conditions and cleanliness during …

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Safe Management of Wastes from Health-Care Activities.

WEBThe waste produced in the course of health-care activities, from contaminated needles to radioactive isotopes, carries a greater potential for causing infection and injury than any other type of waste, and inadequate or inappropriate management is likely to have serious public health consequences and deleterious effects on the environment. This handbook …

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Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH)

WEBHealth efforts in order to include ALL who menstruate. The WASH sector has proven to be an excellent entry point for addressing menstruation, but it is time to move into a broader space by capitalizing on the menstrual movement. With the WASH sector, the focus is often too much on building facilities and providing menstrual

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Menstrual Health and Hygiene

WEB“Achieving menstrual health requires access to information about the menstrual cycle and self-care, materials, water and sanitation facilities and services to care for the body during menstruation, access to timely diagnosis, care and treatment for menstrual discomforts and disorders, a positive and respectful environment free from stigma, and the freedom to …

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WASH and Health for Menstrual Hygiene Management

WEBand hygiene, reproductive and sexual health and education sectors in India and beyond are gratefully acknowledged. The publication also draws on already existing material on the subject. ©2013: Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council This report and other WSSCC publications are also available at www.wsscc.org Designed: ACW, London, UK

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Menstrual Health in Kenya

WEBThis report provides an assessment of the menstrual health sector and identifies opportunities for the field to improve girls’ dignity and empowerment in Kenya. It is the result of a review of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and grey literature; over 25 interviews with policymakers, researchers, and practitioners living or working in Kenya

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Medical Waste Management for WASH Practitioners …

WEBinfectious waste, and most Ministries of Health require incinerators at medium-sized facilities. This note recommends the construction of De Montfort Incinerators (Mark 8a) or other recognised high temperature incinerators in such contextsi. During emergencies, a temporary volume reducer (converted oil drum) can be used as an

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Shit flow diagrams (SFD)

WEBAn excreta flow diagram (or shit flow diagram, SFD) is a tool to readily understand and communicate how excreta ‘flow’ through a city or town. It shows how all excreta generated in a city is or is not contained as it moves from defecation to disposal or end-use. An accompanying report describes the service delivery context of the city or town.

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Global advocacy for the health, safety and dignity of sanitation

WEB1. Support inclusion of sanitation workers’ rights in government and civil society political agendas at the national and local levels 2. Influence the WASH and labour sectors to ensure sanitation workers’ rights are mainstreamed in WASH sector implementation and monitoring 3. Support research initiatives and products which address knowledge

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Case study of sustainable sanitation projects Constructed …

WEBonly the city government with its various offices, i.e. health, engineering and environment. But the users were involved in 2 The under-five mortality rate is the probability (expressed as a rate per 1,000 live births) of a child born in a specified year dying before reaching the age of five if subject to current age-specific mortality rates.

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