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

Participants Manual for Sessions on Water Supply and Sanitation: USAID Workshop on Primary Health Care in Africa, November 15-20, 1981, Lome, Togo

Published: 
February 1, 1982
U.S. Agency for International Development
This manual contains 3 types of documents: resource documents prepared by speakers, background papers/checklists/worksheets and case studies, and appendices consisting of a series of abstracts, lists of lenders, and reference from contact on planning rural water supplies. The workshop sessions on...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Comments on Mandara Mountain Project

Published: 
February 1, 1979
U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource provides a counter to the Mandara Mountain Project. Reasons cited are that it could cause health risks, social instability, and economic failure.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Systematic Literature Review

Published: 
March 1, 2014
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
The project, Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability, evaluates through a rigorous research program three distinctive strategies to enhance the roles of local actors in Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) interventions in Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia. The project aims to learn, capture and share...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Malawi: Report on the Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop on the Development of a National Action Plan

Published: 
July 1, 2014
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
On 18 April, 2013, in Lilongwe, the Ministry of Health hosted a Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop on the Development of a National Action Plan on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Malawi. Stakeholders in Malawi from organizations involved in health and development efforts discussed...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Data Collection Checklists for Training and Community Visits

Published: 
July 14, 2014
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
The project, Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability, evaluates through a rigorous research program three distinctive strategies to enhance the roles of local actors in Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) interventions in Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia. The project aims to learn, capture and share...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Flood Risk Mapping, Water Bodies Monitoring, and Climate Information for Disaster Management and Detecting Risk Areas of Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission

Published: 
May 1, 2013
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This project report provides information on a project of the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, which is developing a tool for forecasting flood risks and assessing vector-borne disease risk for SERVIR-Africa in support of infectious disease monitoring and outbreak prediction. Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Mini Toolbox for Teachers and Schools in Zambia

U.S. Agency for International Development
This toolkit was designed to help teachers, School Health and Nutrition (SHN) coordinators, and other school personnel in Zambian primary schools who are carrying out menstrual hygiene management (MHM) programs or activities in their schools. It contains a set of basic documents, such as a...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Case Study from World Vision on Citizen Advocacy and Disabilities

Published: 
March 1, 2014
World Vision
This case study from Ghana tells the story of a blind man who advocates in his community for improved water and sanitation.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Case Study on Boreholes in Malawi

Published: 
March 1, 2014
World Vision
Children and families in Chimpini village are no longer dependent on the contaminated Chasato River for their water, the same water that would make them sick regularly. Alternately, they no longer need to walk nearly two miles to an overly crowded borehole.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Case Study on Latrines, Hygiene and Improved Health

Published: 
March 1, 2014
World Vision
World Vision helped to improve the health of a community in Mozambique through the provision of a safe latrine and hygiene training.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

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