Death and suffering from preventable sanitation-linked infection is incompatible with universal health coverage.
Death and suffering from preventable sanitation-linked infection is incompatible with universal health coverage.
Will we act on the lessons of COVID-19 and invest in systemic health equity? It starts with basics, like hygiene and toilets.
Outbreak prevention is impossible without WASH. Universal health coverage is impossible without WASH.
When there’s no WASH in healthcare facilities, women, children, and health workers suffer the most.
COVID-19 has widened the persistent gap of inequitable health outcomes. On World Toilet Day, let’s reaffirm our commitment to build back better.
Sanitation and hygiene prevent disease outbreaks. Toilets and handwashing deserve more attention and funding as indispensable public health tools.
15% of patients develop an infection during a hospital stay, with the proportion much greater in low-income countries.
For US-based advocates: sign your name to a pre-drafted letter from Shot@Life's to tell your Member of Congress that you support investments in foreign aid, including routine immunization.
In low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of diarrhea hits families the hardest, the impact of missed work, lost wages, and other indirect costs—on top of the direct costs of treatment—cannot be ignored.