Handwashing with soap, like the Safe Water System
program, is a proven intervention to reduce diarrheal
disease incidence. CDC supports the incorporation
of handwashing into any Safe Water System project,
and has developed a document to teach people how to
make inexpensive handwashing stations called Tippy
Taps 
PDF 660KB.
The CDC is also currently conducting research on
incorporating handwashing with soap into Safe Water
System projects.
In rural Kenya, a training
manual PDF
2.14MB and
curriculum PDF
1.30MB were
developed to train nurses in a hospital how to "prescribe" WaterGuard
(the Population Services International SWS product
in Kenya) to patients presenting at the clinic
with diarrhea. Follow-up visits to the households
of the patients found that 65% of households had
purchased WaterGuard AND had chlorine residual
present in their drinking water 2 weeks after the
visit to the clinic. The training manual and curriculum
have been used to train nurses and other health
care workings in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania. |
