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Ghana: The Poor and Anti-Patent Crusades
AllAfrica.com, Washington -
However, the doctor-patient ratio is abysmally low and close to 60 percent of Africans do not have access to good sanitation and many subsist on less than a ...

Gulf Times
Saudi Arabia Is [A] Key World Bank Partner In Arab World
World Bank Group, DC -
?Roads, clean water and sanitation, electricity networks and other essential infrastructure aimed at improving the lives of the poor and boost growth as ...
Asian leaders issue poverty warning International Herald Tribune
Rising food prices make people vulnerable: ADB?s fiscal support ... The New Nation
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Diseases from Poor Sanitation Account for Thousands of Deaths
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service, Jamaica - Apr 30, 2008
She cited the challenges facing developing countries and the need to develop sanitation policies as well as to place sanitation as a priority in national ...
Brown needs grassroots help on aid
guardian.co.uk, UK - May 4, 2008
Education should be part of a package that recognises that what schools achieve depends on sanitation, clean water, nutrition and health. ...
Kenya launches agriculture information service
Afrique en ligne, France -
(US$1 = 66.50 Kshs) The funds, according to Brandt, will be channeled to the roads, health, water an d sanitation, agriculture and urban development sectors ...
Latin America: Why There's a Water Crisis in the Most Water-Rich ...
AlterNet, CA - May 1, 2008
The UNDP report adds, "People suffering the most from the water and sanitation crisis -- poor people in general and poor women in particular -- often lack ...
Poor Waste Disposal Threatens Health in Zambian Cities
Voice of America - Apr 28, 2008
And one of the UN?s Millennium Development Goals is to provide safe basic sanitation facilities to all by 2015. But in many developing countries, ...

Caribbean Net News
Jamaica's health minister calls for improved sanitation across the ...
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - Apr 30, 2008
... to invest more in sanitation as a way of addressing the "stark inequities" that exist between developed and developing countries and the rich and poor ...

BBC News
Poor could gain as commodities soar
BBC News, UK - Apr 30, 2008
Power, sanitation and transport networks will need to be upgraded, he reasons. Increasingly wealthy consumers in emerging nations will also buy more ...
When an elite minority manipulates
The News - International, Pakistan - May 4, 2008
Such allocation of resource is not democratic, especially when the vast majority clamours for things like sanitation, healthcare, education and recreation ...
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Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study. -
CJ Murray, AD Lopez - Lancet, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... malnutrition and 6.8% to poor water, and ... from various disorders in developing and
developed countries. In 1990, developing countries carried almost 90% of the ...

The role of conceptual frameworks in epidemiological analysis: a hierarchical approach -
CG Victora - International Journal of Epidemiology, 1997 - IEA
... diarrhoea mortality through poor sanitation (a), malnutrition ... proximate determinants
(c). Sanitation exerts its ... for infectious diseases in developing countries ...

… EVIDENCE FOR HEALTH BENEFITS FROM IMPROVED WATER AND SANITATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 1 -
SA ESREY, JP HABICHT - Epidemiologic Reviews, 1986 - Soc Epidemiolc Res
... FOR HEALTH BENEFITS FROM IMPROVED WATER AND SANITATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 1 ...
because of in- adequate and contaminated water supplies and poor sanitation. ...

Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a … -
L Fewtrell, RB Kaufmann, D Kay, W Enanoria, L … - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2005 - Elsevier
... Less developed countries are defined here as any country not ... comparative risk assessment
(class A countries have very ... Poor quality studies, for the purposes of ...

Environmental Interventions in Developing Countries: Interactions and Their Implications -
J VanDerslice, J Briscoe - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1995 - Oxford Univ Press
... effect in neighborhoods with very poor environmental sanitation ... in both water supply
and sanitation are necessary if infant health in developing countries is to ...

Effect of water and sanitation on childhood health in a poor Peruvian peri-urban community -
W Checkley, RH Gilman, RE Black, LD Epstein, L … - The Lancet, 2004 - Elsevier
... 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 In industrialised countries, death and disease due to poor water
supply ... in water and sanitation has been attained in the developing world. ...

[PDF] … urban environment and health in a world of increasing globalization: issues for developing countries -
AJ McMichael - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000 - who.int
... household sanitation problems in western countries have been ... In the megacities of
the developing world, such as ... environmental health hazards faced by the poor. ...
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[PDF] Human Campylobacteriosis in Developing Countries -
AO Coker, RD Isokpehi, BN Thomas, KO Amisu, CL Obi - Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 - origin.cdc.gov
... Poor hygiene and sanitation and the close proximity to animals in developing countries
all contribute to easy and frequent acquisition of any enteric pathogen ...
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[PDF] Estimating the Burden of Disease from Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene at a Global Level -
A Pruess, D Kay, L Fewtrell, J Bartram - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2002 - who.int
... oral pathogens as a result of poor hygiene, or ... water supply and full sanitation coverage,
with ... a situation typically occurring in developed countries I Ideal ...
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Water and Sanitation: Health and Nutrition Benefits to Children
SE Burger, SA Esrey - … and Nutrition in Developing Countries: Priorities for Action, 1995 - popline.org
... identifies priorities for action to enhance child growth and nutrition in developing
countries. This chapter concentrates on poor sanitation and contaminated ...

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New study supports action to tackle poor sanitation in developing countries

Improvements in sanitation and sewerage systems can have a dramatic effect on reducing cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases, research has shown. The study, co-funded by the Wellcome Trust, has led scientists to call for action to improve urban sanitation as an effective way of improving health in developing countries.

According to the WHO, the number of cholera cases during 2006 was 236,896, with 6,311 deaths in 52 countries, a rise of 79% on the previous year. The importance of sanitation in preventing cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases was recognised in the Millennium Development Goals, which set a target of halving the number of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015. However, this target is unlikely to be achieved because the resources allocated to it are small. Part of the reason for this neglect of sanitation is the absence of rigorous evidence for its effectiveness in prevention of disease.

Now, in research published today in the journal The Lancet, Professor Mauricio Barreto and colleagues from the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, have shown that urban sanitation is a highly effective health measure.

In 1997, the city of Salvador in Brazil implemented a city-wide sanitation project, known as Bahia Azul, or Blue Bay. Its objective was to increase the number of households with an adequate sewer system from 26% to 80%, including extending the sewerage network, improving water supply and capacity-building in ten smaller towns in the state.

Professor Barreto and colleagues studied the health impact of the sanitation programme in reducing cases of diarrhoea in children under the age of three years old, working with two cohorts of around 1,000 children. Previous studies had evaluated sanitation only in small scale interventions, i.e latrines in village.

The researchers found that overall prevalence of diarrhoea fell by 22%. However, in high-risk areas, where sanitary conditions were poorest, overall prevalence fell by double this amount, down 43%, despite lower than average requests by households for sewer connections.

"These results show clearly that city-wide sanitation is effective at combating diarrhoea and related diseases," says Professor Barreto. "Importantly, they show that it has the biggest effect in the poorest areas, where sanitation – and hence, disease – is worst. Sanitation can be seen as being an equitable approach to tackling a major health problem."

In order to ensure that sanitation programmes are implemented, Professor Barreto believes that more needs to be done by international organisations and central government.

"It's usually up to the consumer to pay for sanitation, installing flush toilets, septic tanks and so on," he says. "However, there are limits to what can be achieved by individual households alone, especially when what is needed is not household toilets, which are already common, but sewers.

"At a typical cost of US$160 per person, cash-strapped municipalities cannot afford to invest in sewerage systems. International aid agencies and central government must take action to help tackle this serious health problem."

The research comes ahead of International Year of Sanitation 2008, which will be launched at the United Nations Headquarters on 21 November 2007.
 
 
 
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