Health

According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. Resources available in this sub-theme include guidance on installation of cost-effective safe water supply systems and latrines, summaries of health improvements following WASH projects, and other resources that can help to improve the understanding of the health implications of WASH projects.

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Health Resources

MCC Helps Sustain Eradication of the Guinea Worm

Published: 
March 1, 2012
Millennium Challenge Corporation
For ages, Ghanaians relying on stagnant water for their main drinking supply risked contracting Guinea worm disease. As the worm breaks through the skin, the parasite-borne disease leads to a painful infection a year after contamination, complete with fever and swelling, leaving its victims...Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

USAID/E, Preventive Care Package for HIV/AIDS Project: Community Agents Reference Manual (Second Edition)

Published: 
November 1, 2009
U.S. Agency for International Development
This manual is designed to help Community Agents (CA) educate People Living with HIV (PLHIV) about preventing Opportunistic Infections (OIs) using the products and information provided with Basic Preventive Care Package (BPCP).Read more
Regional focus: 
EthiopiaSub-Saharan Africa

Bunds and Bugs in West Africa: Does Rice Irrigation Threaten Farmers' Health?

Published: 
January 1, 1999
U.S. Agency for International Development
Wetland water management and irrigation schemes are thought to make a vector borne disease endemic worse in West Africa. The development and promotion of wetland/irrigated rice cultivation has been restrained because of such health concerns. With rapidly growing consumer demand for rice, and the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

American Refugee Committee: Mozambique Program 1993-1996: Final Program Report

Published: 
October 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The program concentrated on improving rural sanitation and health knowledge and behaviors, providing clean drinking water, and furnishing expanded opportunities for formal health care and formal education through the construction of health facilities and schools.Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

American Refugee Committee, Tete Province, Mozambique: Final Evaluation Report

Published: 
September 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
In August 1996 a team of two consultants were hired to conduct an independent evaluation of the American Refugee Committee Program in Tete Province, Mozambique. The program started in 1993 and ran for aperiod of 3 years. The overall goal of the program was to improve the health of approximately 140...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Sofala Province Integrated Health, Water and Sanitation Project: Final Report

Published: 
January 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
Final report by Africare on a project (7/93-9/96) to reduce water-borne and other diarrheal diseases in selected peri-urban and rural populations in Beira and Chibabava District, Sofala Province, Mozambique. In 5/94, the WASH project, which had spearheaded the original project design, redirected...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Mid-term Evaluation: Child Survival Project Ganzourgou, Burkina Faso -- Africare

Published: 
January 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
A mid-term evaluation of Phase II of Africare's Child Survival Project in Ganzourgou, Burkina Faso, was conducted from March 13 to April 3, 1995. The goal of the evaluation was to analyze the strategies and activities implemented to date in order to draw lessons to apply to reinforce the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Burkina FasoSub-Saharan Africa

Redirection Plan for The Health, Water, and Sanitation Project, Mozambique

Published: 
April 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
In February 1993 WASH published a report entitled "Water Shortage and Related Public Health Problems: An Action Plan for the City of Beira, Mozambique" (WASH Field Report No. 389). in response to this plan, Africare wrote the grant proposal, "The Sofala Province Integrated Health,...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Water Shortage and Related Public Health Problems: an Action Plan for the City of Beira, Mozambique

Published: 
February 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Several years of below-average rainfall have produced record-low flows in the Pungoe River , Beira's only surface water supply. While sufficient in quantity to meet Beira's supply needs, these low flows fail to prevent saltwater from reaching the intake, some 77 km from the mouth of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Assessment of Interagency Collaboration in the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project and Its Guinea Worm Reduction Component

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The joint-agency Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project successfully provided the northern Zou Province with 281 positive wells in villages that received training for social mobilization, pump maintenance and intensive health education.Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

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