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This poster set includes water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) posters to teach about good WASH practices, including household water treatment technologies.

Stop Microbes Poster Set

This workshop is intended to support people who facilitate WASH awareness workshops. It is based on the practical experience of the Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO) and the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST). It has been developed specifically for the context of Nepal. The lessons are for WASH promoters and work well for participants with low levels of literacy. Each lesson comes with the materials needed or instructions on how to build the necessary materials.

This collection contains the resources for both trainers and participants for the Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage workshop. This two to three day workshop provides an introduction to drinking water quality, the Multi-Barrier Approach to safe drinking water, household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) options, behaviour change, and implementation best practices. The intended participants are people responsible for making decisions about HWTS selection and implementation.

These disease cards give an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of common water-related diseases.

This collection contains the resources for both trainers and participants for the Safe Water for People Living with HIV/AIDS workshop. This one day workshop is designed for organizations working in WASH and with people living with HIV/AIDS. The workshop reviews waterborne pathogens highly associated with PLWHA as well as household water treatment solutions.

This collection contains the resources of both trainers and participants for the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health workshop. This half day to one day workshop is designed for WASH, community development and health organizations. The workshop explores the impact of WASH-related diseases on pregnant women, newborns and children; WASH interventions to address these impacts; a multi-barrier approach to provide safe drinking water; and effectiveness of different household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) options for pathogens of concern for pregnant women, newborns and children.

Water can be contaminated in many ways (humans, animals).

Microbes in dirty water can make your children sick.

Contaminated water can make us sick (diarrhea, vomiting, hospitalization, death).

The goal of this guidance document is to help organizations to work as safely as possible and minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. This is updated as of June 19, 2020.

This lesson plan contains instructions to facilitate a session where participants will learn how to safely prepare chlorine solutions for surfaces and hand disinfection. This was prepared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use these instructions to make a handwashing soap solution from laundry detergent, if soap or hand sanitizer (handrub) are not easily available. This was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use this video to make a handwashing soap solution from laundry detergent, if soap or hand sanitizer (handrub) are not easily available. This was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document contains instructions and safety measures to prepare chlorine solutions with Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) for surface and hand disinfection. There are other documents including one on how to use Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine) as well as a Calculator (excel sheet) for different product concentrations. This was prepared to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document contains instructions and safety measures to prepare chlorine solutions with Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine) for surface and hand disinfection. There are other documents including one on how to use Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) as well as a Calculator (excel sheet) for different product concentrations. This was prepared to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This PowerPoint includes practical recommendations on safety and security when doing community work adapted for different contexts. Este PowerPoint contiene una serie de recomendaciones de bioseguridad para la vuelta al trabajo en el contexto COVID-19 específicos y adaptados para Colombia.

This is a questionnaire to assess symptoms at a workplace and a temperature log to be used by every staff, volunteer, training participant, or other individual in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please, remember to adapt this form to the privacy policies applicable to your context. Also see the Health Screening Questionnaire.

This is a questionnaire to assess symptoms at a workplace and a temperature log to be used by every staff, volunteer, training participant, or other individual in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please, remember to adapt this form to the privacy policies applicable to your context. Also see the Temperature Log.

This spreadsheet is a calculator to prepare chlorine solutions using different product concentrations with Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) or Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine) for surface and hand disinfection. There are other documents including one on how to use Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) or Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine). This document was prepared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This PowerPoint includes practical recommendations on safety and security when doing community work adapted for different contexts. Este PowerPoint contiene una serie de recomendaciones de bioseguridad para la vuelta al trabajo en el contexto COVID-19 específicos y adaptados para Colombia.

The focus of this lesson is to explore different diarrheal diseases present within communities and to identify ways of responding to them. Participants will discuss effective measures for responding to the presence of diarrheal disease and demonstrate how to effectively prepare oral rehydration solution in an emergency response context.

This lesson focuses on the general idea about female reproductive organs and the menstrual cycle.

The focus of the lesson is to know experiences of first menstruation, become familiar with the term menstruation, myths and misconceptions related to menstruation. This helps students to talk confidently and accurately about menstruation.

These disease cards give an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of common water-related diseases.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of shigellosis.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of cryptosporidium.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of schistosomiasis.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of arsenicosis.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC).

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of ascariasis.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of giardiasis.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of cholera.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of rotavirus.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of fluorosis.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of typhoid fever.

This water-related disease card gives an overview of the distribution, cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of hepatitis A and E.

This Technical Brief introduces the importance of point-of-use (POU) water treatment in non-household settings. These institutions include schools, health care facilities, workplaces, temporary use settings (e.g., restaurants, markets, places of worship, public facilities), mass gatherings (e.g., public events, festivals), and dislocated populations (e.g., refugee camps, prisons).

This technical brief is for people who are interested in knowing more about the importance of safe water for people living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA).

This technical brief introduces WASH-related diseases of concern for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). It also discusses the impacts of these diseases on RMNCH.

This fact sheet summarizes important facts about the impact of poor water, sanitation and hygiene on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health.

This technical brief introduces the overall impact of poor WASH on RMNCH, discusses nutrient deficiencies, and identifies ways to prevent WASH-related diseases.

This workshop outline contains a workshop description, objectives, audience, content and training materials needed for this workshop. This is a 1/2 - 1 day seminar about the link between reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and WASH.

This presentation is provided as a tool for participants to analyze the impact of some WASH-related diseases on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health.

These are CAWST lesson plans on maternal and child health and how it is related to WASH.

This presentation is used as a guide to discuss diseases of concern to pregnant women, newborns and children and analyze the effectiveness of different HWTS options for maternal, newborn and child health.

This document summarizes published studies and information about the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health.

This presentation was used to deliver a webinar that synthesizes the most recent research, to discuss the impact of WASH related diseases on pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, and children under the age of five. We will describe how diarrheal disease leads to malnutrition and other related nutrient deficiencies in mothers and children. Finally, we will discuss potential WASH interventions to improve the health of mothers and children.

Microbes are transferred from faeces to our mouths in many ways (hands, flies, water, fields, food).

There are three main ways to stop the transfer of faeces to our mouths: basic sanitation, safe water and proper hygiene.

This presentation describes the effects of unsafe water for mothers and children

These are CAWST's lesson plans that focus on WASH and its impact on the health of people living with HIV/AIDS

This presentation describes the effects of unsafe water for people living with HIV/AIDS

This presentation describes the effects of unsafe water for people living with HIV/AIDS

This presentation describes the importance of safe water for vulnerable populations

This presentation describes the importance of safe water for vulnerable populations

This is a 1 day seminar that focuses on identifying the challenges of living with HIV/AIDS and brainstorming local solutions

This presentation describes the importance of safe water for people living with HIV/AIDS

This is a 1 day seminar focusing on the challenges of living with HIV/AIDS and how household water treatment can help

This presentation describes the importance of safe water for people living with HIV

This presentation describes the water sources that are of greatest risk to people living with HIV/AIDS

This presentation describes how HWTS can provide safe water for people living with HIV/AIDS

This presentation describes the risk of waterborne pathogens for people living with HIV/AIDS

This is a 1 day seminar focusing on the challenges of living with HIV/AIDS and how household water treatment can help

This document summarizes published studies and information about WASH related diseases of concern for people living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA).

This document summarizes published studies from countries in Asia about WASH related diseases of concern for people living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) in the region.

This document summarizes published studies from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean about WASH related diseases of concern for people living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) in the region.

This document summarizes published studies from countries in the Middle East, Europe and USA about WASH related diseases of concern for people living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) in the region.

This document summarizes published studies from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa about WASH related diseases of concern for people living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) in the region.