Bangladesh now open defecation free country
Attaining the status of a role model for its neighbours, Bangladesh has become an open defecation free country from 34 percent to 99 percent sanitation coverage in the last decade, said representatives
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Pakistan
Diarrhoeal deaths: ‘Save a Child a Minute’ launched
Reckitt Benckiser (RB), manufacturers of Dettol, and the Plan International Pakistan, a developmental sector organisation, have collaborated to design and test a new approach to reduce the incidence of
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The interaction of deworming, improved sanitation, and household flooring with soil-transmitted Helminth infection in rural Bangladesh
The combination of deworming and improved sanitation or hygiene may result in greater reductions in soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection than any single intervention on its own. We measured STH
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Water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition in Bangladesh: can building toilets affect Children's growth?
This report provides a systematic review of the evidence to date, both published and grey literature, on the relationship between water and sanitation and nutrition. Also survey the potential impact of
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Environmental enteropathy, oral vaccine failure and growth faltering in Infants in Bangladesh
Environmental enteropathy (EE) is a subclinical enteric condition found in low-income countries that is characterized by intestinal inflammation, reduced intestinal absorption, and gut barrier dysfunction.
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Pakistan
2,787 schools in Thatta, Sujawal have no electricity
With around 300,000 children of school-going age not enrolled and a high dropout rate, the state of education in government schools in Thatta and Sujawal districts is beyond dismal. Between 70 to 85 per
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India
Modelling the impact of sanitation, population growth and urbanization on human emissions of Cryptosporidium to surface waters—a case study for Bangladesh and India
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that can cause diarrhoea. Human faeces are an important source of Cryptosporidium in surface waters. We present a model to study the impact of sanitation, urbanization
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Urban climate resilience, water and sanitation: improving multi-stakeholder collaboration in Dhaka, Bangladesh
This paper attempts to identify a strategy for improving collaboration between stakeholders working in Dhaka city to improve climate change resilience of the urban water and sanitation (WATSAN) sector,
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Nepal
Tackle Nepal’s typhoid problem now
The news that a promising vaccine has been tested against Ebola is very welcome. But, as we in Nepal know only too well, the development of a vaccine is no guarantee that it will be used. Back in 1987,
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Can microfinance help boost sanitation coverage?
Microfinance for business has had mixed impacts but there is evidence that it could succeed in funding sanitation facilities in developing countries The time when microfinance was seen as the miracle
