Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.
Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Drinking-water encompasses water used for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene. Water safety and quality are fundamental to human development and well-being. Providing access to safe water is one of the most effective instruments in promoting health and reducing poverty.
Safe WASH are crucial to human health and well-being. It contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and help to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.
Universal access to safe drinking water, sanitation and adequate hygiene (WASH) services is essential to population health, welfare and development. Preventable water-related diseases claim tens of thousands of lives in the Western Pacific Region.
Estimating WASH-related burden of disease Unsafe WASH is linked to many diseases and risks including infections, non-communicable diseases from exposures to contaminants in drinking-water and adverse impacts on well-being.
This strategy sets out the direction and role of WHO within the context of the SDGs and WHO’s 13th Programme of Work. It reinforces WHO’s traditional role as a source of authoritative guidelines, technical assistance, and evidence for policy-making. It describes how WHO will increase its impact through introduction of transformational approaches, and tackling new results areas like WASH in ...
The WHO WASH Strategy aims to improve health through the safe management of water, sanitation and hygiene services. To implement this strategy, WHO works through partnerships, notably with UNICEF, to promote equitable access to WASH services, support universal health coverage (UHC) and meet critical health and environmental goals, despite human and financial resource constraints.
This report summarizes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) during 2021. It describes how the Organization continued to deliver its essential WASH programming as elaborated in its 2018–2025 strategy, as well as WHO’s continuing WASH response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Ce premier rapport du JMP sur les services WASH dans les établissements de santé présente les nouvelles échelles de services pour les services de base. Il établit des estimations de référence qui contribuent au suivi mondial des cibles ODD concernant l’accès universel aux services WASH et la couverture sanitaire universelle.
