Social Issues

Families still in need as calm returns to Myanmar’s Meiktila

25 May, 2013 - 18:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97731/Families-still-in-need-as-calm-returns-to-M...
MEIKTILA 26 March 2013 (IRIN) - Inside a stadium now sheltering more than 2,000 displaced people in the central Myanmar town of Meiktila, residents appear dazed.

Boost for healthcare in DRC

25 May, 2013 - 18:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97761/Boost-for-healthcare-in-DRC
NAIROBI 31 March 2013 (IRIN) - The British government has announced a major new programme aimed at providing essential healthcare to six million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The five-year, US$270.7 million project will focus on rebuilding health facilities, training health workers, and supplying drugs and equipment.

Kenya’s waste management challenge*

25 May, 2013 - 18:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97638/Kenya-s-waste-management-challenge
NAIROBI 13 March 2013 (IRIN) - As the urban population in Nairobi and elsewhere in East Africa grows, so does the solid waste management burden - a situation worsened by poor funding for urban sanitation departments and a lack of enforcement of sanitation regulations.

Cholera outbreak in Congo

25 May, 2013 - 18:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97661/Cholera-outbreak-in-Congo
BRAZZAVILLE 15 March 2013 (IRIN) - An influx of migrants from the countryside into the Republic of Congo's second largest city, Pointe-Noire, is exacerbating a cholera outbreak that began in November 2012. The outbreak infected at least 389 and killed 10, according to the health ministry and local authorities.

Gender relations are changing along with climate

25 May, 2013 - 18:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97727/Gender-relations-are-changing-along-with-cl...
JOHANNESBURG 25 March 2013 (IRIN) - A changing climate will inevitably have an impact on gender relations in conservative rural communities, but not enough is being done to boost the resilience of women - already disadvantaged by traditions of inequality.

Containing cholera in Niger

25 May, 2013 - 18:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98078/Containing-cholera-in-Niger
NIAMEY 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabéry Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees.

Frogs, salamanders and climate change

19 May, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/earth_climate/~3/RA1SWvRza9A/13051...

Originally Published by ScienceDailly

– Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns can lead to declines in southeastern frog and salamander populations, but protecting ponds can improve their plight.

SHARE – Making connections: Women, sanitation and health

7 May, 2013 - 19:03
Source: 
Sanitation updates
URL: 
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/share-making-connections-women...

Published on May 3, 2013 – “Making connections: Women, sanitation and health” took place on 29th April 2013 at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Save Lives, Clean your Hands – BRAC video

7 May, 2013 - 14:05
Source: 
Sanitation updates
URL: 
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/save-lives-clean-your-hands-br...

The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh has produced a new handwashing promotion video. It shows slides of handwashing promotion sessions for different groups (children, adolescent girls, women, men), as well as for schools, village WASH committees and mosques (imams).

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