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May 26, 2011
A health care worker demonstrates simple and effective hand-washing techniques.
"You can be extremely poor but extremely clean." If there ever was a statement that dispelled assumptions about the correlation between hygiene and poverty, it was this
May 16, 2011
Yael Velleman, WaterAid, is on hand at the World Health Assembly to make certain that safe water and sanitation gets the attention it deserves.
May 09, 2011
End Water Poverty campaigners take message from 350,000 World Walks for Water participants to the UN
It's an exciting moment for water and sanitation campaigners at End Water Poverty, as we're about to take the footsteps and voices of the 350,000 people who joined the World Walks for Water in March to world leaders at the United Nations
May 05, 2011
Two-year-old Ash lives with adoptive parents in the United States, but he still suffers from a chronic illness he contracted in his home country of Ethiopia.
Two years ago, my husband and I decided to add to our family through international
May 02, 2011
This past Wednesday, April 27, I spent my lunch time walking for water with over 300 representatives from the US Department of State, the Swedish Embassy, the media and local NGOs. Maria Otero, Undersecretary for Democracy and Global Affairs,
Apr 27, 2011
Those of us who care about water need to find creative ways to work together to support healthy people and ecosystems.
Apr 19, 2011
It's been a year since defeatDD was born. Back then, I blogged about how diarrhea was often a joke at the party, but less often a serious contender for action in the world of global health. Over the past year, I've started to think maybe I was
Apr 14, 2011
In the village of Kamusinga, Kenya, parents learn about basic diarrheal disease prevention strategies from a community health volunteer.
Apr 06, 2011
In this photo, Shawn Shafner, founder of The POOP Project, meditates about cultural healing on a Zurn toilet at the 2010 American Society of Plumbing Engineers Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
