viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2015

Subject: Toilets & Health: Better Sanitation for Better Nutrition

Subject: Toilets & Health: Better Sanitation for Better Nutrition

USAID: From the American People

Around the world, undernutrition and lack of safe water and sanitation are major challenges. One in three people – 2.4 billion individuals globally – lack access to a toilet.Access to toilets, safe water, vaccines, and simple interventions like oral rehydration solution (ORS) and zinc have the power to prevent 361,000 diarrheal deaths per year among children under age 5.

The theme for World Toilet Day this year is “Toilets and Health: Better Sanitation for Better Nutrition,” drawing our attention to the need for better sanitation to improve nutrition and health for everyone, everywhere. Today, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are releasing the jointly prepared document,Improving Nutrition Outcomes with Better Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Practical Solutions for Policies and Programs [PDF, 2.4 MB], which summarizes the benefits of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions to improve nutrition

Improved access to water and sanitation is critical to achieving other development objectives such as health, nutrition, gender equality, education, and the eradication of poverty. This World Toilet Day, let’s remember that universal access to toilets is one of many necessary steps to ending preventable deaths.