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• Gates Foundation awards $10.9 million to study impacts of sanitation on diseases

  
  WASH News International — Authority: 114
  Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. Dr. Jack Colford Dr. Jack Colford , professor of epidemiology at UC ...
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• Handwashing for nerds: Are those Dysan jet dryers better than paper towel?

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 507
  Amy, Sorenne and I spent a long last weekend in San Francisco, where Amy conferenced, I had some meetings, but mainly just hung out with the kid (three pirates and a little girl, right). The washrooms at the San Francisco airport featured the Dysan airblade , billed as the “fastest, most hygienic hand dryer.” ...
  4 days ago

• More Hand-washing Headlines

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 132
  After I wrote my "Typhoid Mary" post the other day, I took a look at my hospitals Web site, and right there front and center on the homepage was this: H1N1 UPDATE Our goal during the flu pandemic is to keep you and your family safe and healthy And then links to pages on visitor restrictions and tips on how to ...
  6 days ago

• Do you know what you’re touching?!

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 510
  Yes, I know. It’s anal. Even slightly creepy. But it makes sense. I freely admit that I am one of those people who hangs around in public toilets waiting for someone else to come in or go out so I don’t have to touch the door handle. Or performing acrobats so I can use my [...]
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• The Golden Poo Awards. Really.

  
  Thirsty in Suburbia — Authority: 123
  Toilet humor (humour) has moved out of the school yard and into the studios of some of the UK’s most creative animators. I thought I was good at the potty puns and chuckles, but the threshold has been raised to astounding heights with the winners of the short film “ Golden Poo Awards ” announced October 15th. In ...
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• The Servant, The Word, and Traditions of Men

  
  FIRE AND HAMMER — Authority: 119
  Mark 7:1-37 “1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat ...
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• Nepal: Sanitation finally a priority

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 126
  The diarrhoea that spread earlier in 2009 in 18 districts across Nepal killed nearly 300 people; nearly six months after the initial outbreak, four ministries have finally made a joint commitment to launch a massive water and sanitation campaign to meet the state’s target of providing complete sanitation to all by ...
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• IFH – Use of ash and mud for handwashing

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 474
  Use of ash and mud for handwashing in low income communities . 2009. (pdf, 480KB) Professor Sally F. Bloomfield; Professor Kumar Jyoti Nath. International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene (IFH). Epidemiological and microbiological data show that, in low income communities, as elsewhere, handwashing is particularly ...
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• TWiV 56: Perspicuously perspicacious

  
  virology blog — Authority: 466
  Hosts : Vincent Racaniello , Dick Despommier , Alan Dove , and Cliff Mintz On episode #56 of the podcast ‘This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Cliff answer questions from listeners on swine influenza origins, transmission, virulence, and vaccines, HIV and AIDS, and more. ...
  2 weeks ago

• West Africa: stopping cholera emergencies

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 127
  Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. Researchers with the London School of Hygiene and ...
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• What Makes a Man Wash His Hands?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 815
  Filed under: Woman Up Disgust. A British study of 250,000 people using public restrooms showed that men washed their hands half as often (32 percent of the time) as women (64 percent) did.   Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments
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• Automated hand sanitizer - Chicago, Illinois

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 507
  The newly married  Gonzalo Erdozain, one half of the Erdozain news pulling siblings and a pre-vet student at Kansas State, writes in a state of marital bliss: As I walked down an aisle in Chicagos Navy Pier, I couldnt help but notice a nice little automated hand sanitizer dispenser in the middle of the wall, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did you remember to wash your hands?

  
  Fieldnotes — Authority: 125
  “Did you remember to wash your hands?” This is a question most of us heard thousands of times throughout our childhoods. Hand washing is a routine we pick up at an early age, drilled into us by constant reminders from relatives, teachers, and catchy TV jingles. By adolescence, it becomes an engrained habit that we ...
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• Bolivia: drop in diarrhoea thanks to swine flu handwashing campaign

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 474
  If any good has come of the global H1N1 flu pandemic, it may have started with a child like Nayeli Quispe, 7, a second-grader from the impoverished hillsides of La Paz, Bolivia. Prompted by a massive campaign by the country’s public-health officials to contain the spread of the new flu virus, Nayeli and millions of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colorectal Cancer News in Brief: October 23

  
  C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition — Authority: 126
  Written by Kate Murphy . Briefly: Health care providers are less likely to recommend colorectal cancer screening to their patients with a high school education or less.  IV ibuprofen enhances morphine to control post-operative pain, reducing pain and letting patients use less morphine. Superspreaders with ...
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• Do the Global Handwashing dance! “Washy washy wa”

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 474
  Kaiji Moriyama lathers up. Photo: UNICEF UNICEF Japan and its partners have released a hilarious video to promote handwashing to mark 2009 Global Handwashing Day . Renowned Japanese dancer Kaiji Moriyama has choreographed a dance for a public service announcement designed to teach children the principles of good ...
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• Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done

  
  WASH Resources — Authority: 418
  Johansson, E.M. … [et al.] (2009). Diarrhoea : why children are still dying and what can be done . New York, NY, USA, UNICEF and Geneva, Switzerland, World Health Organization. v, 58 p. ISBN 978-92-806-4462-3 (UNICEF). ISBN 978-92-4-159841-5 (WHO). Full report This report examines the latest available ...
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• UNICEF/WHO – Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done

  
  WASH News International — Authority: 114
  Despite the existence of inexpensive and efficient means of treatment, diarrhoea kills more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, according to a report issued today by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). The report, titled Diarrhoea: Why Children Are Still Dying and What Can Be Done ...
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• World record wash-off: India versus South Africa

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 507
  The World Health Organization launched their second annual Global Handwashing Day on October 15, 2009. The purpose of the two events was to break current world record holder, Bhiddwa School Niketon of Dhaka, Bangladesh, with 1,213 participants. South Africa broke the current record with 1,802 Gauteng ...
  3 weeks ago

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