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HIV/AIDS and water supply, sanitation and hygiene [Quality Assurance: Sandy Cairncross, and Madeleen Wegelin]

Author(s): van Wijk, Christine  |  Cairncross, Sandy  |  Wegelin, Madeleen

Publisher: WEDC
Place of publication: Loughborough University, UK
Year: 2003

Series: WELL Fact Sheet
Collection(s): WELL

Links:

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

AIDS has become the most devastating global epidemic ever. Yet many secondary diseases from which patients suffer are preventable through better hygiene. When more treatment becomes available, patients can live longer and stay healthier.

A nearby and reliable supply of water, including for small-scale production and sanitary latrines, helps those infected stay healthy longer and able to continue work. They reduce the workload for caregivers and help preserve human dignity. Policy makers, programme planners and managers, donors and field workers need to treat HIV as a chronic disease and plan for better water supply, sanitation and hygiene to counteract the cruel impacts on people's day-to-day health, work, income and dignity.

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