Big push for water, sanitation and hygiene on final day of World Health Assembly
Friday discussions at the World Health Assembly focused on water, hygiene, and sanitation as InterAction member WaterAid calls for collaboration between water and health sectors for reducing disease burden.
Recent cholera outbreaks in Haiti, Ghana and Nigeria provide a reminder of the devastating and quick spread of disease in communities where sanitation and water management is scarce.
As oral vaccines are now being pushed as an effective solution, WaterAid has called for their use in conjunction with simple WASH solutions.
The WHO estimates that 10% of the global disease burden could be prevented with basic safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
Read more about WASH and health on the Guardian’s Poverty Matters Blog.
REUTERS/Keith Bedford, courtesy Trust.org – AlertNet
