Hygiene Improvement for Diarrheal Disease Prevention
One of the leading causes of child death in the world today is diarrhea. Approximately
2 million children under the age of five die each year from diarrheal diseases.
Although mortality figures from diarrhea have declined substantially over the
past two decades, there is no evidence to show a parallel reduction in diarrhea
morbidity. Therefore, it is clear that any further significant progress in
reducing the overall burden of diarrhea will have to come from addressing diarrhea
morbidity.
To reduce morbidity, USAID’s environmental health program
promotes hygiene improvement—an integrated approach that combines access
to hardware (water, sanitation and household-level technologies); hygiene
promotion through hygiene behavior change; and an enabling environment through
policy improvement, public-private partnerships and institutional strengthening.
Learn more about USAID's efforts to fight Childhood Diarrheal Disease.
Key Activities
- Operations research to improve the effectiveness of environmental health
interventions for diarrheal disease prevention
- Development of guidelines and field applications that lead to sanitation
policy improvements
- Development of tools to help private voluntary organizations (PVOs)/nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), program managers and communities
design and implement hygiene improvement activities consistent with USAID’s
hygiene improvement approach for diarrheal disease prevention
- Implementation of field activities
related to hygiene improvement
- Implementation of pilot programs to better understand specific urban
health issues, particularly child health, for effective urban slum programming
Programs
- Childhood Diarrheal Disease
- Pneumonia and Indoor Smoke
Materials Related to Hygiene Improvement
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