Smart hygiene solutions: Examples of hygiene methods & tools and tips Roose, S., Spijksma, E., van Daalen, T., Singeling, M. (2010)
Approximately 120 million children are born in the developing world each year. Halve of these children will live in households without access to improved water and sanitation, which puts their survival and development at grave risk. As a result of poor hygiene and lack of access to water and sanitation, 1.5 million under five children die every year because of diarrhoeal diseases alone.
Vast improvement in water, sanitation and hygiene are needed to meeting
Millennium Development Goal Four- reducing death among children under
the age of five by two-thirds by 2015. The importance of hygiene in water and sanitation programmes has often been neglected. Too often improvement in hygiene was thought to follow automatically once water and sanitation facilities are in place. But in practice improving hygiene behaviour requires special attention. Hand washing with soap is the most effective and inexpensive way to prevent diarrhoeal and acute respiratory infections, which take the lives of millions of children in developing countries every year. Yet, despite its lifesaving potential, hand washing with soap is seldomly practiced and difficult to promote.
Bibliographic information
Roose, S., Spijksma, E., van Daalen, T., Singeling, M. (2010). Smart hygiene solutions: Examples of hygiene methods & tools and tips Netherlands Water Partnership, KIT Publishers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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