Global Handwashing Day 2015: A Simple Act Saves Lives
Handwashing with soap is an extremely effective and cost-efficient intervention to prevent pneumonia and diarrhea in children. Newborns are especially susceptible to pathogenic infections, which account for nearly 30 percent of newborn mortality globally.
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Global Handwashing Day 2015: Efficient, Effective, Affordable
A study in Nepal found that birth attendant and maternal handwashing were associated with a 41 percent reduction in newborn mortality. Handwashing with soap also reduces infections in mothers and children during pregnancy and childbirth.
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Global Handwashing Day 2015: Changing Behaviors, Saving Lives
USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) promotes four key behaviors to improve maternal, newborn, and child health: treating drinking water for young children, safe disposal of excrement, clean play spaces, and handwashing with soap.
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Global Handwashing Day 2015: Important Steps toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality
By promoting handwashing at these critical times, MCSP aims to provide expectant mothers with a hygienic birthing experience, reduce newborn infections, and improve nutritional outcomes in children under the age of five.
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Global Handwashing Day 2015: Change Begins at Home
The Clean Household Approach works to generate behavior change and demand for household handwashing stations and soap. MCSP incorporates factors such as perceived wealth, convenience, and social status – more influential motivators than health.
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Global Handwashing Day 2015: Everyone Can Lend a Hand
Sustained handwashing behaviors depend on promoting more homes with dedicated handwashing stations and a consistent availability of soap for convenient, routine handwashing. MCSP links households with local markets and partners with local governments.
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Global Handwashing Day 2015: Access Is the Key to Prevention
The Clean Household Approach is helping to maximize household access to and use of handwashing stations and soap to ensure that no child dies of hygiene-related illnesses.
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Global Handwashing Day 2015: A Global Undertaking
This Global Handwashing Day, remember that only when we reach the most marginalized children and ensure they receive the same preventive care as their peers elsewhere in the world will we end preventable child deaths.
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Last updated: May 10, 2019
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