Health
Toilets and Health: Better Sanitation for Better Nutrition (World Toilet Day Panel)
The Permanent Mission of Singapore and UN-Water are pleased to invite you to the 2015 World Toilet Day observance at the United Nations on Thursday 19th November 13:15-14:45. The event will take the form of a lunch time panel discussion on Toilets and Health: better sanitation for better nutrition. See this flyer for more information, the programme outline and how to register.
Community-led Ebola Action: Adapting a community-led approach to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
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Listening to the People
On 7th November 2015, eighteen months after its first confirmed case of Ebola, Sierra Leone declared itself free of the Ebola epidemic.
FTIs and Undernutrition: burning questions for the WASH and Nutrition Forum in Bonn

On the 11th and 12th November 2015, the German WASH-Network, an alliance of 19 German NGOs, is hosting an international conference on the nexus between WASH and nutrition security in Bonn.
Stanford study shows effects of toilet facilities on child health in rural Africa
Ebola Infections 17 Times Less Likely in Communities that Participated in Community-Led Total Sanitation (Liberia)

The impact of inadequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities on women and girls in India and Bangladesh

Impact evaluation of CLTS in rural Mali

Nutrition puzzles: the shit factor

A few years ago I posted a blog titled ‘Nutrition Puzzles’. Today, the puzzles seem a bit nearer to resolution. And the answer may be shit.
The earlier blog was prompted by the huge and massively expensive nutrition survey that was sponsored by a range of international aid donors. It showed to everyone’s surprise that, despite the crisis, nutrition indicators across Zimbabwe, including in rural areas, were not as disastrous as expected. Indeed, they were better than most neighbouring countries, including South Africa.