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Efforts must continue to bring clean water, sanitation, food to the world

In a post on Science Blogs' "The Pump Handle," Liz Borkowski, a research associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, recognizes World Water Day, discusses the importance of access to clean water and sanitation facilities.

23 Mar 2012

MCC fact sheet details efforts to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) provides a fact sheet detailing its efforts to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the developing world.

23 Mar 2012

VOA News examines polio eradication efforts in Pakistan

VOA News examines polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan, where "authorities say national pride is now at stake for polio eradication and they are hoping to overcome years of setbacks from natural disasters, misinformation and war."

22 Mar 2012

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad, writing, "Hovering at around 20 percent in some places, Kanem Region in western Chad is well-known for having some of the world's highest continual severe acute malnutrition rates," and, "unless something is done to improve the country's 'dysfunctional' health system (as described by half a dozen interviewees), these malnutrition rates are unlikely to change significantly."

21 Mar 2012

UNDP launches Global Water Solidarity Platform

The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) recently launched the Global Water Solidarity Platform "at the World Water Forum in Marseille, France, where 20,000 participants from the private, public and non-profit sectors [met] to address the water crisis," according to a UNDP press release.

19 Mar 2012

People of faith can work together to make water safe worldwide

"We don't honor God when 4,500 children die every day -- but they do -- from the lack of something so simple, each of us takes it for granted: a safe glass of water," Rabbi Jack Bemporad, executive director of the Center for Interreligious Understanding, and journalist Susan Barnett write in Huffington Post's "Religion" blog.

17 Mar 2012

Indian Finance Minister's budget includes 58% increase for malnutrition programs

Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's "budget includes a big boost in spending on reducing malnutrition," with an increase for malnutrition programs of "58 percent in fiscal 2012-13 to 158 billion rupees, or about $3 billion," the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog reports.

17 Mar 2012

Antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life

Widely used antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life, according to a University of British Columbia study.

17 Mar 2012

Cote d'Ivoire working to rebuild health care system under new presidential administration

"Ten months after the West African country of Cote d'Ivoire started to emerge from a presidential election crisis during which almost all hospitals and clinics had to shut down for a good six months because they had been vandalized, looted and occupied, the new government under President Alassane Ouattara is trying to make public health care a priority," including implementing "a new national health regulation, which came into effect on Mar. 1, that offers free health services to pregnant women, children under five years and people suffering from malaria," Inter Press Service reports.

15 Mar 2012

USAID annual letter discusses global health initiatives

PSI's "Healthy Lives" blog presents global health-related excerpts of USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah's annual letter that was published on March 9.

12 Mar 2012

Inter Press Service publishes two-part series on toilets, sanitation in post-earthquake Haiti

Inter Press Service has published a two-part series, made possible with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Haiti, examining sanitation services in Haiti since the earthquake in 2010.

9 Mar 2012

World achieves MDG for safe water years before target date

"Developing countries have already achieved their 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of drastically reducing the number of people without regular access to improved drinking water, though much of the credit lies with India and China," UNICEF and the WHO said in a joint report on Tuesday, Reuters reports

7 Mar 2012

Meeting MDG safe water target cause for celebration, but more work remains to bring access to all

The achievement of meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for safe drinking water "shows that where there is a will, it is possible to truly transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people for the better," Sanjay Wijesekera, chief of water, sanitation and hygiene for UNICEF, writes in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog."

7 Mar 2012

Sun-dried tomatoes may be contaminated with hepatitis A virus: Officials warn

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said two confirmed cases of the infection had been found to have an identical strain to three cases reported in England and confirmed at HPA Colindale in 2010. Both people had recently eaten sun-dried tomatoes.

5 Mar 2012

Typhoid outbreak spreading in Zimbabwe; Officials working to improve sanitation, drug supply

"A typhoid outbreak that began in Harare last year is steadily spreading across Zimbabwe with more than 3,000 cases reported although only one death due to the disease has been reported so far, health officials have said," ZimOnline reports.

1 Mar 2012

Urbanization leaves millions of children without access to vital services, UNICEF report states

"Urbanization leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services, UNICEF warns in 'The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World,'" released on Tuesday, the agency reports in a press release.

29 Feb 2012

India lags in efforts to meet Millennium Development Goals

"India is lagging in its effort to reach United Nations goals to reduce poverty and improve health and sanitation, but has shown significant progress boosting education, treating AIDS and addressing environmental concerns," Noeleen Heyzer, executive secretary of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, said last week, the New York Times' "India Ink" blog reports.

24 Feb 2012

Scientific American examines Gates Foundation toilet-design initiative

"Advocates for universal access to and use of basic personal sanitation hope their efforts will get a big boost in August, when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation present several hygienic innovations developed through its Reinventing the Toilet Challenge," Scientific American reports in a feature article.

23 Feb 2012

Flooding leaves millions in Pakistan at risk of malnutrition, disease, aid groups warn

"A feeble international response to Pakistan's second major flooding crisis in two years has left millions of people at serious risk of malnutrition and disease, aid groups warned Thursday," Agence France-Presse reports.

18 Feb 2012

Cyclone kills at least 16 in Madagascar; UNICEF responds with medicines, mosquito nets

"At least 16 people have been killed this week when a category four cyclone lashed Madagascar's eastern shores, rescue authorities said on Wednesday," Reuters reports.

18 Feb 2012

Sanitization News and Research

Efforts must continue to bring clean water, sanitation, food to the world

MCC fact sheet details efforts to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene

VOA News examines polio eradication efforts in Pakistan

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad

UNDP launches Global Water Solidarity Platform

People of faith can work together to make water safe worldwide

Indian Finance Minister's budget includes 58% increase for malnutrition programs

Antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life

Cote d'Ivoire working to rebuild health care system under new presidential administration

USAID annual letter discusses global health initiatives

Inter Press Service publishes two-part series on toilets, sanitation in post-earthquake Haiti

World achieves MDG for safe water years before target date

Meeting MDG safe water target cause for celebration, but more work remains to bring access to all

Sun-dried tomatoes may be contaminated with hepatitis A virus: Officials warn

Typhoid outbreak spreading in Zimbabwe; Officials working to improve sanitation, drug supply

Urbanization leaves millions of children without access to vital services, UNICEF report states

India lags in efforts to meet Millennium Development Goals

Scientific American examines Gates Foundation toilet-design initiative

Flooding leaves millions in Pakistan at risk of malnutrition, disease, aid groups warn

Cyclone kills at least 16 in Madagascar; UNICEF responds with medicines, mosquito nets

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