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A young girl holding a metal bucket stands beside an elderly woman outside a rustic wooden structure. Both are smiling. The text reads, "25 Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water - 2015 Update and MDG Assessment.
Jan 01, 2015

Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the framework that has been a key part of efforts to build a better world for the past 15 years – challenged the global community to reduce by half the proportion of the population without safe drinking w...
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Jan 02, 2014

Diarrhoea Dialogues

Diarrhoea Dialogues: From Policies to Progress English, 4.7 MB PDF French, 4.7 MB PDF
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Full report: Integrated Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) (PDF, 763 KB) Authors: UNICEF and WHO Published: April 2013   GAPPD report resources:
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Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)

The Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD), a global plan published in 2013 by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), represents the first-ever simultaneous effort to protect children from pneum...
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Jan 01, 2011

Join up, Scale up

This report presents successful models of integration that respond to community-level and national needs through a focus on primary healthcare, clean water and sanitation, and nutrition. These initiatives are generating important lessons and evidence...
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Apr 01, 2009

Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer

Several countries and organizations are successfully scaling up use of interventions to overcome childhood diarrhea, including safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene, breastfeeding and optimal complementary feeding, rotavirus vaccines, zinc trea...
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