- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO develops, updates and disseminates health-based guidance documents and best practice guides, norms and standards that support standard-setting and regulations at national level, particularly for drinking-water safety, effective surveillance approaches, recreational water quality, sanitation safety, safe wastewater use, WASH in health and educational facilities, and WASH monitoring
- WHO, UNICEF update country tracker on water, sanitation and hygiene in . . .
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have released an updated country progress tracker that shows how countries are advancing efforts to improve water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and waste services in health-care facilities The tracker, now covering 107 countries – up from 75 two years ago – underpins global monitoring against the 2023 United Nations General Assembly Resolution
- Guidance on WASH and health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Safe WASH are not only a prerequisite to health, but contribute to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and help to create resilient communities living in healthy environments Inadequate or unsafe WASH may cause disease through a range of interrelated transmission pathways, which include among others:
- Improving nutrition outcomes with better water, sanitation and hygiene
A growing body of evidence indicates that access to safe drinking-water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services has an important positive impact on nutrition Achieving the six Global Nutrition Targets 2025, as well as global goals for WASH and health, will require greater investments in nutrition and WASH
- Menstrual Health and Hygiene - World Bank Group
Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls On any given day, over 800 million women worldwide are menstruating, but an estimated 500 million lack access to menstrual products and adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene management (MHM) To effectively manage their menstruation, girls and women require access to water
- Water Sanitation and Health - World Health Organization (WHO)
The 2017 report was the first of the Sustainable Development Goal period and established baseline estimates for monitoring the new Sustainable Development Goal targets This was followed by progress reports for WASH in households in 2019, 2021 and 2023 The JMP also produces progress reports about WASH in health care facilities and WASH in schools
- Infection prevention and control and water sanitation and hygiene in . . .
The IPC and WASH rapid assessment tool (RAT) is meant to assess health facilities within mpox-affected areas that have at least one inpatient bed This guide is intended for individuals who are conducting assessments of a facility, regardless of their previous IPC and or WASH experience
- Health Water, Hygiene, Sanitation (WASH) - World Bank Group
Overview Reliable data on household’s use of health facilities, medical expenses, and access to water, hygiene, and sanitation (WASH) is key, both to understand household living standards and to inform investments in access to health services, equity, and financial protection in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
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