Hygiene

Hygiene programming includes specific messaging and information sharing, in addition to considering who is targeted and how beneficiaries are equipped and engaged. Example hygiene projects include: handwashing promotion, menstrual health management (MHM), media messaging strategies, general promotion or sensitization, community health worker activities, and non-food item distributions, like hygiene kits or soap distributions.
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Managing menstrual hygiene in emergency situation: How far from reality?

Menstrual hygiene is a vital as well as a very sensitive issue for women in reproductive ages. In general, women spend around six to seven years of their lives menstruating.

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: ASIA REGIONAL SANITATION AND HYGIENE PRACTITIONERS WORKSHOP    Author(s): Wickramasinghe_D.

Up scaling Rural Sanitation in Pakistan Post-2010 Flood Areas

In the aftermath of the unprecedented flooding in 2010 that devastated large areas of the country and directly affected over 20 million people, the incidence of water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases, including acute diarrhea, among the affected populat

Publication year: 2012    Reporting Agency: UNICEF    Author(s): Alrai_A., Shami_B.

Description of the targeted WASH response strategy implemented during the cholera outbreak of 2017-2018 in Kinshasa, DRC

Background. Rapid control of cholera outbreaks is a significant challenge in overpopulated urban settings, and documented results on field interventions are scarce.

Publication year: 2019    Reporting Agency: Ministry of Health - Democratic Republic of Congo    Author(s): Bompangue_D., Moore_S., Taty_N., Benido_I., Sudre_B., Manda_R., Balde_T., Mboussou_F., Vandevelde_T.