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Webinar recording | Tackling AMR in European healthcare facilities
October 24, 2019
WASH at the Frontline – What do Health Workers Want?
October 14, 2019
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Frontline health workers put their lives on the line every time they report to work in a clinic or hospital without WASH services. At the 2019 World Water Week,...
Safe Surgery – and UHC – hinge on water, sanitation and hygiene
October 8, 2019
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An article from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about how the absence of WASH affects the ability to provide safe...
Safe Surgery – and UHC – hinge on water, sanitation and hygiene
October 8, 2019
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An article from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about how the absence of WASH affects the ability to provide safe...
Maternal mortality levels and trends 2000-2017
October 3, 2019
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Despite the decrease in the number of maternal deaths, the world will fail to meet its 2030 Sustainable Development Goal target. In human terms, this means, at the current...
UNC Water & Health 2019
October 2, 2019
From resolution to revolution: a movement to ensure quality WASH services in health care facilities around the world
September 30, 2019
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At the World Bank, we are aligned with our clients and partners in the recognition that every health care facility around the world deserves to have functioning WASH facilities...
International Infection Prevention Week
September 29, 2019Nine takeaways from the Global Meeting on WASH in health care facilities
September 27, 2019
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A series of reflections from the recent global meeting on WASH in health care facilities - how will YOU join the Movement and go from Resolution to Revolution?...
Celebrating the first ever Global Patient Safety Day
September 27, 2019
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There are few conditions of greater vulnerability than to be sick and poor, or a woman giving birth, in a healthcare facility without safe water or basic sanitation. Global...
Risk Remains on the Inaugural UN Patient Safety Day
September 17, 2019
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When 17 million women give birth in healthcare facilities without adequate water, soap and toilets every year, that’s a colossal global health problem....I paid a telling visit to a...
Operational Training and Learning in Ethiopia supports improved WASH and Safe Surgery
September 3, 2019
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In 2015 the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for strengthening essential surgical care, including infection prevention and control standards to improve surgical safety. This gave the impetus...
