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More than 761 million people rely on shared sanitation facilities. These have historically been excluded from international sanitation targets, regardless of the service level, due to concerns about acceptability, hygiene and access. Prompted by a proposed change in such policy, this review was undertaken to identify and summarize existing evidence that compares health outcomes associated with shared sanitation versus individual household latrines.
January 2014 newsletter by Plan Ethiopia that gives updates on activities that took place between July and December 2013, including the CLTS experience sharing workshop, CLTS orientation of Natural Leaders. a midline project survey, a sanitation marketing initiative, and more.
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Article by Sharmani Barnard, Parimita Routray, Fiona Majorin, Rachel Peletz, Sophie Boisson, Antara Sinha, Thomas Clasen in PLoS ONE 8(8): e71438. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071438 based on research on the impact of the Indian Government's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) on latrine coverage and use among 20 villages in Orissa.
From the 1st to 3rd April Kenya's Ministry of Health organised the First National Annual Conference on Sanitation & Hygiene in Nairobi.The theme for the conference was “accelerating access to improved sanitation under devolution: making the right a reality.” The main objective was to spur action by both national and county governments to accelerate access to safe sanitation in Kenya. The specific objectives were:
The first decade of this century brought a surge in aid for health, particularly for HIV and malaria. Now health officials and wonks are debating how to fight a broader range of diseases. The World Bank has set a goal of universal health-coverage by 2030. This is an important, complex endeavour. But in the effort to improve health care, it is worth remembering a simple, albeit unsavoury truth: poo matters.
After the poor results of the 1999-2012 Total Sanitation Campaign, Madhya Pradesh (MP) launched the Maryada Abhiyan, based on the renewed national sanitation campaign Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan.
In this speech delivered on the 25th March at the Brisbane WASH Conference, Archana Patkar, Programme Manager for Networking and Knowledge Management at the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) asks how the sanitation sector can work differently in order to address the complex issue of equity and proposes 7 operating principles for where and how the WASH sector should invest its energy and efforts.
