Handwashing (Hand Washing)
Source:
- Catholic Relief Services
Summary:
- A healthy environment is crucial for maintaining the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS, and for the success of home-based care. The WHO estimates that 85 to 90 percent of diarrheal illnesses in developing countries can be attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene practices, such as handwashing with soap, treatment and safe storage of water, and safe feces disposal. Proper care requires not only safe drinking water, but also larger quantities of water for hygiene and sanitation purposes, and because of
physical limitations caused by HIV/ AIDS, the design of water and sanitation facilities greatly influences effective access to these services. Unfortunately, water and sanitation services are extremely limited in many of the countries most
affected by the HIV/ AIDS pandemic.
Keywords:
Accessing Water Diarrheal Diseases Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) Home-Based Care Household Water Treatment & Storage Innovation People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal
Source:
- Water and Sanitation Program
Summary:
- Diarrhea remains one of the main threats to child health in the developing world, but washing hands with soap at critical times – after contact with feces and before handling food – could reduce diarrheal rates by up to 47 percent. Rates of handwashing with soap remain discouraging throughout the developing world, and large-scale promotion of handwashing behavior change is a challenge. Global Scaling Up Handwashing is a Water and Sanitation Program project focused on learning how to apply innovative promotional approaches to behavior change to generate widespread and sustained improvements in handwashing with soap, at scale, among women of reproductive age (ages 15-49), and primary school-aged children (ages 5-9). The project is being implemented by local and national governments, with technical support from WSP, in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam, and builds on national campaigns initiated by the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW). Please find a database of tippytap handwashing variations at the WSP website.
Keywords:
Handwashing (Hand Washing) Small Doable Actions
Source:
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Summary:
- The WEDC website provides research to improve knowledge and use of affordable aids, methodologies, and approaches by water and sanitation service planners and providers, and organisations and individuals who assist disabled people and their families in low-income communities maximise their access and use of the domestic water cycle. There are over 600 million disabled people in the world, of whom over 75% live in developing countries. The poorest suffer from inadequate diet, reduced access to health care, and poor hygiene -- each of which contribute to a higher risk of disability. In turn, disability exacerbates poverty, by placing an added strain on already fragile family economies, and disabled people face problems of access to services and opportunities, compounded by discrimination and social exclusion. Despite all these factors, the poor and disabled are largely ignored by governments and development programmes. WEDC aims to help with social integration, restore dignity to the individual disabled person, and reduce the workload of their family members by improving disabled people's access to and use of the domestic water cycle.
Keywords:
Accessing Water Disabled Patients Evidence Base Formative Research Handwashing (Hand Washing) Nutrition Sanitation/Feces Disposal Stigma Websites
Source:
- Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation & C-Change/FHI 360. 2011.
Summary:
- Community health workers (CHWs) — the core of the community strategy
— are expected to mobilize and energize communities to take charge of their
own health. The approach used in this Training Guide harnesses capacity for
improving WASH practices by having CHWs negotiate small doable actions
that individuals and families can take to improve their behavior incrementally
while working toward an ideal practice. This approach is more likely to lead to sustained behavior change by ensuring that families identify feasible but effective actions that they can practice correctly and consistently, thereby improving the likelihood that the practice will be maintained over time. It also supports incremental change; once smaller successes are realized, families feel ready to take on bigger challenges.
Keywords:
Community-Based Care Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources
Source:
- Institute of Water and Sanitation Development. 2011. Zimbabwe
Summary:
- The objective of the ZIMWASH project is to strengthen the capacity of civil society and local government in Zimbabwe to provide sustainable integrated water, sanitation and hygiene services that address the needs of the rural poor, especially those of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. It was against this background that a training of trainers workshop on Participatory Health and Hygiene Education (focusing on HIV and AIDS) was conducted in Hwange District. This manual provides the schedule and training materials for the five-day workshop.
Keywords:
Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
Source:
- WaterAid in Nepal. 2010.
Summary:
- The main objective of the study was to increase the understanding of PLHAs’ access to WASH and its impact on their daily lives in order to inform the health, HIV/AIDS and WASH sectors of the various issues involved. Specifically, the study aimed to:
- Assess the prevailing knowledge, opinions and practices of WASH amongst PLHA.
- Learn about the experiences of PLHA with regards to their access to WASH and factors associated with it.
- Gather views of PLHA on WASH and its link to their social lives and health.
- Highlight the need for cross-sector debate and efforts to address the WASH issues for PLHA within the health, HIV/AIDS and WASH sectors.
Keywords:
Accessing Water Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Stigma