PHA-Exchange> Re: [afro-nets] Report Shows Progress on Access to Water and Sanitation

[Believe Dhliwayo]

Hie Claudio;
Thanks for the report, what has been lessons learnt though with regards to
limited sanitation and safe water access and its effects on HIV/AIDS in
resource limited settings.

Good day

Believe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claudio Schuftan" <claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn>
To: <pha-exchange at lists.kabissa.org>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:19 AM
Subject: [afro-nets] Report Shows Progress on Access to Water and Sanitation


> UNICEF Report Shows Progress on Access to Water and Sanitation,
> but Problems Remain
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> from Vern Weitzel <vern at coombs.anu.edu.au>
>
> New York, Sep 28 2006 1:00PM
>
> Although more than 1.2 billion people have gained access to safe
> drinking water since 1990, at least four of every 10 people
> still lack basic sanitation, contributing to the deaths from
> diarrhoea of about 1.5 million children under the age of five
> each year, according to a report released today by the United
> Nations Children's Fund.
> http://www.unicef.org/media/media_36034.html
>
> http://www.unicef.org/progressforchildren/2006n5/index.html
>
> Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation
> contains mixed conclusions on the advances made towards one of
> the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), that which calls for
> halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to
> safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.
>
> It found that global coverage of safe drinking water increased
> from 78 per cent to 83 per cent between 1990 and 2004, and that
> Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as South Asia, are on
> schedule to achieve the MDG well ahead of schedule.
>
> Global access to basic sanitation has risen from 49 per cent in
> 1990 to 59 per cent today, with South Asia more than doubling
> its numbers during the period. In East Asia and the Pacific, the
> proportion jumped from 30 per cent to over 50 per cent.
>
> Yet some 1.5 million children under the age of five die from
> diarrhoea each year because they still do not have safe drinking
> water or basic sanitation.
>
> The report found that those deaths could be reduced by more than
> a third with improved sanitation, while better hygiene practices
> could cut the death rate by another third.
>
> Despite commendable progress, 425 million children lack access
> to a better water supply and more than 980 million do not have
> access to adequate sanitation.
>
> Clean water and sanitation are vital pre-requisites for improved
> nutrition, reductions in child and maternal mortality and the
> fight against disease. Other benefit of clean water and
> sanitation is the improvement in school attendance rates and
> academic performance, as children are no longer deterred from
> classes by the need to fetch and carry water for their families.
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