Sanitation/Feces Disposal

WASH-HIV Integration Counseling Cards for Community Health Workers – Kenya

  • Source:
  • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, USAID and C-Change.

  • Summary:
  • Set of WASH-HIV integration counseling cards for community health workers in Kenya.

  • Keywords:
  • Community-Based Care Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage Job Aids Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Kenya – WASH & HIV Materials

    • Source:
    • WASHplus.

    • Summary:
    • Links to training materials related to WASH & HIV Integration in Kenya.

  • Keywords:
  • Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage Job Aids Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Innovations in Water and Sanitation – Helping People Living with HIV to Access Better Water and Sanitation Facilities

    • Source:
    • Catholic Relief Services

    • Summary:
    • A healthy environment is crucial for maintaining the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS, and for the success of home-based care. The WHO estimates that 85 to 90 percent of diarrheal illnesses in developing countries can be attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene practices, such as handwashing with soap, treatment and safe storage of water, and safe feces disposal. Proper care requires not only safe drinking water, but also larger quantities of water for hygiene and sanitation purposes, and because of physical limitations caused by HIV/ AIDS, the design of water and sanitation facilities greatly influences effective access to these services. Unfortunately, water and sanitation services are extremely limited in many of the countries most affected by the HIV/ AIDS pandemic.

  • Keywords:
  • Accessing Water Diarrheal Diseases Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) Home-Based Care Household Water Treatment & Storage Innovation People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal
  • Uganda HIV and WASH Integration Training Resources – Assessment Tool

    • Source:
    • USAID, HIP, Government of Uganda and Plan Uganda.

    • Summary:
    • A pictorially based WASH Assessment Tool to help the home-based care worker assess a household's current practices in hand washing; treatment of drinking water; feces disposal; and cleaning of rags used for menstrual blood (that will be reused). The practices toward the left hand side of the Assessment Tool represent higher risk practices that put the patient's health at risk. The practices on the right hand side of the tool represent practices that provide better protection against illnesses, such as diarrhea.

  • Keywords:
  • Handwashing (Hand Washing) Home-Based Care Household Water Treatment & Storage Job Aids Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Uganda HIV and WASH Integration Training Resources – Counseling Cards

    • Source:
    • USAID, HIP, Government of Uganda and Plan Uganda.

    • Summary:
    • Pictorially based tools prepared for home-based care workers to use with clients in the household, including a WASH Assessment Tool (to assess the current WASH behaviors to help identify those that need to be improved) and 23 Counseling Cards (covering hand washing; water treatment, storage and handling; feces management for mobile and bed-bound clients; and menstrual blood management). These tools are available in English, Acoli, Ateso, Kiswahili, Lugandan, and Runyankole-Rukiga.

  • Keywords:
  • Handwashing (Hand Washing) Home-Based Care Household Water Treatment & Storage Job Aids Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Uganda HIV and WASH Integration Training Resources

    • Source:
    • USAID, HIP, Government of Uganda and Plan Uganda.

    • Summary:
    • In Uganda, HIP, in partnership with Plan Uganda, the Government of Uganda, and the Uganda Water and Sanitation Network (UWASNET), developed training and outreach worker materials based on the principle that WASH practices in the household can be improved -- new practices can be adopted and current practices can be modified or changed in small ways that are acceptable/feasible to households. The materials include a: - Training Manual - Participant's Guide - Counseling Cards (pictorially based) - Assessment Tool (pictorially based)

  • Keywords:
  • Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage Job Aids Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources
  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre Site – Water Supply and Sanitation for Disabled People and Other Vulnerable Groups

    • Source:
    • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

    • Summary:
    • The WEDC website provides research to improve knowledge and use of affordable aids, methodologies, and approaches by water and sanitation service planners and providers, and organisations and individuals who assist disabled people and their families in low-income communities maximise their access and use of the domestic water cycle. There are over 600 million disabled people in the world, of whom over 75% live in developing countries. The poorest suffer from inadequate diet, reduced access to health care, and poor hygiene -- each of which contribute to a higher risk of disability. In turn, disability exacerbates poverty, by placing an added strain on already fragile family economies, and disabled people face problems of access to services and opportunities, compounded by discrimination and social exclusion. Despite all these factors, the poor and disabled are largely ignored by governments and development programmes. WEDC aims to help with social integration, restore dignity to the individual disabled person, and reduce the workload of their family members by improving disabled people's access to and use of the domestic water cycle.

  • Keywords:
  • Accessing Water Disabled Patients Evidence Base Formative Research Handwashing (Hand Washing) Nutrition Sanitation/Feces Disposal Stigma Websites
  • Considerations for Building and Modifying Latrines for Access

    • Source:
    • C-Change/WASHplus. Planning a Pit Latrine: A Resource Guide.

    • Summary:
    • This guide explains several types of hygienic latrines and how to construct them, as well as modifications that can be made for the elderly and disabled people.

  • Keywords:
  • Disabled Patients Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • AIDSTAR AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources – Improving the Lives of PLHIV Training Resources

    • Source:
    • AIDSTAR-One

    • Summary:
    • Several USAID projects have developed training materials and participant manuals for integrating WASH into home-based and facility care. These provide more detailed "how tos": both how to improve sanitation and hand washing through behavior change, and how to build capacity of professional and lay cadres. USAID’s AIDSTAR I program has developed a comprehensive training guide and materials for health workers available from the AIDSTAR website.

  • Keywords:
  • Food Hygiene Home-Based Care Household Water Treatment & Storage Innovation Maternal and Child Health Nutrition OVCs (Orphans/Vulnerable Children) People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) PEPFAR PMTCT (Preventing Mother to Child Trans.) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Websites
  • Community Health Workers in WASH-HIV Integration

    • Source:
    • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation & C-Change/FHI 360. 2011.

    • Summary:
    • Community health workers (CHWs) — the core of the community strategy — are expected to mobilize and energize communities to take charge of their own health. The approach used in this Training Guide harnesses capacity for improving WASH practices by having CHWs negotiate small doable actions that individuals and families can take to improve their behavior incrementally while working toward an ideal practice. This approach is more likely to lead to sustained behavior change by ensuring that families identify feasible but effective actions that they can practice correctly and consistently, thereby improving the likelihood that the practice will be maintained over time. It also supports incremental change; once smaller successes are realized, families feel ready to take on bigger challenges.

  • Keywords:
  • Community-Based Care Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources