The link between COVID-19 Transmision, sanitation and hygiene (WSSCC interview with Knowledge Management & Innovation Officer)

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• Machrine Birungi is a communications professional, award winning news reporter, writer, and journalist, with a passion for telling stories that help people make informed decisions. She is currently a social media analyst at the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council in Geneva.

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The link between COVID-19 Transmision, sanitation and hygiene

03 Apr 2020 17:49 #29418 by Mbirungi

Basic sanitation and hygiene is essential to keeping healthy, but the mist around the calls for handwashing across the globe, appears to obscure much of what strikes as reality for many people in the world. Two facts according to the  World Health Organization stand out here; 2 billion people live without access to basic sanitation and 3 billion lack basic handwashing facilities at home.  

Unsafe sanitation or absence of handwashing facilities impacts mainly vulnerable communities in least developed countries, those who are most left behind and those who are least able respond. 
So, what is  the link between transmission of diseases like COVID-19 and sanitation and hygiene services?

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)   Knowledge Management and Innovation Officer explains explains the link between and argues why investments in innovative and scalable approaches for promoting handwashing behaviours in healthcare and non-healthcare settings are needed to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19.

What are the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for improving safe sanitation and hygiene services?

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Machrine Birungi
Communications Analyst/ Social media
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