EHP News  June/July 2003

• CAIRO HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM
  
• STRENGTHENING MALARIA SURVEILLANCE IN ERITREA
  
• DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: INTEGRATING HYGIENE IMPROVEMENT INTO PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
  
• NEPAL HANDWASHING WITH SOAP INITIATIVE
  
• URBAN HEALTH CONFERENCE IN INDIA
  
• NEW EHP PUBLICATIONS, BRIEFS, AND MORE

• Previous Issues

• Previous Issues by Country

In an effort to help USAID field missions effectively program child health resources in urban slums, USAID Asia Near East (ANE) Regional Bureau launched an Urban Health Initiative. Under the Initiative, EHP is implementing the Cairo Healthy Neighborhood Program with support from USAID/Egypt and USAID/EGAT/Urban Programs.

Ezbet El Nakhl, the slum community selected for the Healthy Neighborhood Program, ranks among Cairo's most destitute areas. Its residents are mostly "zabbaleen," or traditional garbage collectors, sorters and recyclers, who live and work in the garbage and waste collected from nearby neighborhoods.

Activities to be undertaken by EHP under the program include: a situation analysis of Ezbet El Nakhl; community and governmental/organizational stakeholders meetings to identify program priorities; hygiene improvement activities based on priorities identified at stakeholders' meetings; and capacity building of local NGOs involved in the program to implement the activities.

The project has been initiated with the formation and training of a team of Egyptian consultants, who together with community volunteers, will conduct the two-week long situation analysis before the end of June.

For more information, contact Sarah Fry at [email protected].

EHP is providing technical assistance to the Eritrea National Malaria Control Program to help strengthen analyses of historical data. Data on reported malaria cases (hospitals and health facilities), interventions (e.g., antimalarial drugs, household spraying, nets, and environmental management), and meteorological data (rainfall and temperature) have been gathered and re-entered into computer databases, covering the period 1996-2002.

The data, now disaggregated to local levels, are being used to reconstruct events associated with the severe epidemics in Eritrea during 1997-98 and to evaluate the impact of malaria program interventions. Results will be used to identify potential improvements in program planning, epidemic preparedness, revising malaria risk maps and defining and improving protocols for sentinel surveillance sites.

For more information, please contact Gene Brantly at [email protected].

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), USAID is supporting a range of integrated activities within SANRU III, a five-year, $25 million, rural primary health care project implemented by Interchurch Medical Assistance (I.M.A) and Christian Church of Congo (ECC). SANRU III is revitalizing and expanding the network of existing zonal water and sanitation (WS&S) coordinators established under SANRU I/II in the 1980s, while at the same time increasing program emphasis on hygiene improvement, behavior change communication and community-based integrated management of childhood illnesses (C-IMCI). SANRU III operates in 63 of DRC's decentralized health zones.

EHP has been assisting SANRU III in two areas. To help SANRU revitalize and expand the network of WS&S coordinators, EHP organized a training of trainers workshop to establish a national training team for WS&S coordinators and prepared materials for the trainers.

Second, EHP has assisted SANRU III in developing a hygiene promotion component that focuses on key hygiene behaviors such as handwashing, safe water storage, and safe excreta disposal. This component has been implemented under SANRU's C-IMCI framework. EHP's technical assistance consisted of formative research, communication materials development, and training of staff from ten pilot health zones. In the coming year, EHP will assess the experience in the pilot zones, develop a strategy for scale-up, and provide assistance in implementing the strategy.

For more information on EHP activities in the DRC, please contact Fred Rosensweig at [email protected].

A memorandum of understanding outlining a partnership between USAID/Nepal and UNICEF/Nepal has been drafted to promote handwashing with soap as a public health initiative. The initiative will draw on models and lessons learned from handwashing initiatives in other countries to develop a public private partnership (PPP) between soap manufacturers, the public sector, and international organizations, and will be integrated with existing sanitation and hygiene programs in Nepal. The overall objective of the initiative will be to prevent diarrheal disease among children under five in Nepal through a coordinated communication campaign promoting proper handwashing with soap.

Prior to designing and implementing the campaign, social and consumer research will be conducted, and findings will be used to design effective campaign strategies. EHP has subcontracted a private marketing and communications company to provide private sector/social marketing expertise to the handwashing initiative and is also assisting UNICEF in initial preparations to conduct the social and consumer research.

For more information, please contact Lisa Nichols at [email protected].

With support from USAID/India, a national conference on urban health is being organized by EHP/India together with the Government of India. The conference will take place in Bangalore, June 30-July 1, 2003. The purpose of the conference is to provide a platform for dialogue among policy makers, planners and implementers of urban health programs, to review programs and policies related to urban health, and to make key recommendations for future urban health programming to the Government of India.

The conference proceedings will be highlighted on the EHP website, www.ehproject.org.

For information on the Urban Health Conference, please contact Sarah Fry at [email protected] or Siddharth Agarwal at [email protected].

NEW EHP PUBLICATIONS, BRIEFS, AND MORE

ACTIVITY REPORT 118. LESSONS LEARNED FROM ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROJECT WEBSITE

This report documents the findings and recommendations from the website evaluation and actions taken to improve the EHP website. 

A 401 KB PDF version of this report is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Activity_Reports/AR-118-WebSiteAsses.pdf.

 For more information or a hard copy of this report, contact [email protected]. 

ACTIVITY REPORT 119. URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STRATEGIES: THREE COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION AND HYGIENE PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

This report documents activities related to three pilot projects conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo under USAID/DRC’s Urban Environmental Health Strategy.

A 284 KB PDF version of this report is available at:

http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Activity_Reports/AR-119%20%20DRCongoReportFormatted.pdf.

For more information or a hard copy of this report, contact [email protected]. 

THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER ON SANITATION POLICIES 

This International Reference Centre (IRC) web-based Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) on sanitation policies was prepared in collaboration with EHP. 

 A 111 KB PDF version of this paper is available at: http://www.irc.nl/page.php/282. 

NEPAL VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE PROGRAM CD-ROM 

This interactive CD-ROM is designed to provide information related to the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases—— malaria, Japanese encephalitis and Kala-azar——in Nepal.

To order a copy of this CD-ROM, contact [email protected]. 

FOUR NEW EHP BRIEFS

EHP BRIEF 13. BEST PRACTICES FOR DENGUE CONTROL IN THE AMERICAS 
A 672 KB PDF version of this brief is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/EHPBriefs/EHPB13.pdf.

EHP BRIEF 14. URBAN POOR CHILD HEALTH IN ASIA AND THE NEAR EAST 
A 620 KB PDF version of this brief is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/EHPBriefs/EHPB14.pdf.

EHP BRIEF 15. WATER FOR WAR-TORN WEST BANK: THE EMERGENCY WATER OPERATIONS CENTER (EWOC) 
A 475 KB PDF version of this brief is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/EHPBriefs/EHPB15.pdf. 

EHP BRIEF 16. IMPROVING URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
A 475 KB PDF version of this brief is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/EHPBriefs/EHPB16.pdf. 

For more information or a hard copy of any of the above briefs, contact [email protected]. 

 SPANISH VERSIONS OF STRATEGIC REPORTS 6 AND 7

STRATEGIC REPORT 6S. MECANISMOS DE APOYO INSTITUCIONAL PARA LOS SISTEMAS RURALES DE AGUA POTABLE Y SANEAMIENTO MANEJADOS POR LAS COMUNIDADES EN AMÉRICA LATINA

A 428 KB PDF version of this report is available at: 

http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Strategic_papers/EHP%20SR-6SPANISH.pdf.

STRATEGIC REPORT 7S. MEJORES PRÁCTICAS PARA LA PREVENCIÓN Y EL CONTROL DEL DENGUE EN LAS AMÉRICAS

A 678 KB PDF version of this report is available at:

http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Strategic_papers/SR-7-Spanish.pdf.  

For more information or a hard copy of either of the above reports, contact [email protected]. 

 FRENCH VERSION OF ACTIVITY REPORT 113 

ACTIVITY REPORT 113F. RAPPORT DE FIN DE PROJET, DU CESH AU BÉNIN RÉSUME ANALYTIQUÉ, PROJET DE SANTÉ ENVIRONNEMENTALE, GESTION COMMUNAUTAIRE DE SANTÉ ENVIRONNEMENTALE II (GESCOME II)

 A 159 KB PDF version of this report is available at: 

http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Activity_Reports/AR-113French.pdf. 

 For more information or a hard copy of this report, contact [email protected].

Previous Issues 

The main topics or countries discussed are given in parentheses.

May 2003 (Global Health Council Conference 2003 Focuses on Health and the Environment, It’s Back: The Return of Vector Control as a Tool Against Malaria, Mainstreaming Prevention of Diarrhea in Child Health" Healthy Families, Healthy Forests: Integrated Programs, Malaria, Dengue, Cholera: Environmental Strategies for Control and Prevention, Improving Maternal and Child Health in Urban Slums and Squatter Settlements, Environmental Issues in Income Generation and Health)
March 2003 (EHP Nicaragua Program Receives The Robert C. Marini Clientship Grand Award, Sierra Club Honors AVS Coordinator, Cairo Urban Slum Child Health Program, Aga Khan Workshop, Best Practices For Dengue Prevention And Control In The Americas, Dhanusha-Mahottari Vector-Borne Disease Program: Community-Based Prevention And Control Of Kala-Azar, Sanitation In Small Towns: Summary Report on Sub-Regional Workshops, USAID Knowledge Management Inventory)
January 2003 (The West Africa Water Initiative, Lac Regional Workshop On Community IMCI, Reducing Urban Malaria Transmission in Uganda, Lessons Learned from Community Management of Environmental Health in Benin, Urban Environmental Health Pilot Activities in DR Congo, An Enabling Environment for Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Systems in the Dominican Republic)
October 2002 (India: Improving Child Health and Nutrition, Hygiene Promotion in the LAC Region, Malaria Control in Eritrea, Congo: Hygiene Improvement, Madagascar: Integrated Health, Population, World Summit on Sustainable Development)
September 2002 (West Africa Environmental Health Assessment, Dissemination Workshop on Latin America Small Town's Sanitation, Ghana Urban Health Assessment, News from BBIN Network, Honduras)
August 2002 (Improving the Early Warning Report System in Nepal, Assessing Sanitation Policies, Post-Mitch Activities in Nicaragua, African Sanitation and Hygiene Conference)
June 2002 (West Bank Environmental Health Assessment, New Publications)
March 2002 (E-Conference on Hygiene Improvement Framework, Latin America and the Caribbean, Larva Control, Nicaragua, Africa Malaria Day)
January 2002 (New EHP Director; Benin; Monitoring Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Activities; Malaria and Vector Control)
November 2001 (EHP Handwashing Publication, West Bank, Asia and the Near East, PAHO–EHP Partnership)
October 2001 (Benin, Sustainable Sanitation in Small Towns, DR Congo, Peru Behavior Change)
August 2001 (India, Eritrea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, BBIN Network, information exchange network)
June 2001 (Mozambique, Madagascar, Nepal, Dominican Republic, indoor air pollution consultation, Nairobi SIMA Conference)
May 2001 (Central America handwashing initiative, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Nepal, Bolivia)
March 2001 (Nicaragua, Madagascar, Africa, DDT cost comparison)
January 2001 (EHP Activities, E-Newsletter, National Malaria Control Programs in 4 African Countries, Congo, Decentralization in Latin America, Peru, WSSCC Forum, Global WS&S Assessment from WHO/UNICEF)
November 2000 (Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Madagascar, SANICONN)
September 2000 (Nepal/Regional, EHP and E-conferences)
July 2000 (Nicaragua, Malaria Vaccine Development, "Water for the World")
May–June 2000 (Nicaragua, International Consultation on Indoor Air Pollution)
April 2000 (Nicaragua, Madagascar, Mozambique)
March 2000 (Benin, South Africa, Eritrea, Madagascar)
February 2000 (Nicaragua, Paraguay, Ukraine, Mozambique and Eritrea)
January 2000 (Nicaragua, EHP Lessons Learned)

Previous Issues by Country

• Benin

  • January 2002

• Bolivia

  • May 2001

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • May 2001

  • August 2001

• Dominican Republic

  • January 2003

  • June 2001

• Eritrea

  • October 2002

  • February 2000

  • March 2000

  • May 2001

  • August 2001

• India

  • October 2002

  • August 2001

• Madagascar

  • October 2002

  • March 2000

  • April 2000

  • November 2000

  • March 2001

  • June 2001

• Mozambique

  • February 2000

  • April 2000

  • January 2001

  • June 2001

• Nepal

  • February 2000

  • September 2000

  • May 2001

  • June 2001

  • August 2002

• Nicaragua

  • March 2003

  • January 2000

  • February 2000

  • April 2000

  • May/June 2000

  • July 2000

  • November 2000

  • March 2001

  • March 2002

  • August 2002

• Peru

  • January 2001

  • October 2001

• West Bank

  • November 2001

  • June 2002

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