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Health impact of handwashing with soap [Quality Assurance: Val Curtis]

Author(s): Ensink, Jeroen  |  Curtis, Val

Publisher: WEDC
Place of publication: Loughborough University, UK
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Series: WELL Fact Sheet
Collection(s): WELL

Links:

• http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/wedc/well/

Hygiene promotion, together with improved water supply and sanitation, is a key component of intervention programmes which aim to reduce the burden of diarrhoeal diseases in developing countries. However, the impact of hygiene promotion, and the washing of hands with soap in particular, has wider health implications. This fact sheet gathers the available evidence of the health impact of the promotion of handwashing with soap in developing countries and highlights the gaps in our knowledge.

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