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Water & Neglected Tropical Diseases
March/April 2013

Water & Neglected Tropical Diseases

  • Can Water Meters Ease Kenya's Supply Woes?

  • Drug-Shoe Combination Aims to Stomp Out Haiti’s Neglected Diseases

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Children experience clean water running through their hands.
Delivering Safe Water to Save Lives

Water is essential for life. Humans need water to drink, to bathe and to grow food. However, more than 780 million people—about two and a half times the population of the United States—lack access to safe drinking water, and 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation worldwide. 

Lilik Amana shows off her new piped-water connection.
Safe Water, Sanitation Reaching Indonesia's Urban Poor
Girls in Jerash pose in front of their school’s storage tank that is painted to look like an aquarium.
Water from a Stone: Jordanians Stretch Meager Resources to Sustain Syrian Refugees
Testing water in a laboratory
Becoming Jordan's Water Experts
USAID’s partnership with the Bauchi State Water and Sewerage Corporation is bringing real hope for improved water and sanitation
Your Voice: Reversing Water Losses in Africa
Tenants in Nakuru enjoy the convenience and affordability of using public prepaid meters. Jane Maina was one the first landlords
Can Water Meters Ease Kenya's Supply Woes?

Neglected Tropical Diseases

Students prepare to take part in a mapping survey at Pav Primary School in Rattanakiri.
Wiping Snail Fever Off Cambodia's Map - by Drawing It On

WIth USAID support, Cambodia is enlisting many – including school children – on a mission to wipe out the infection that can lead to debilitating illness, malnutrition and cognitive difficulties.

Children wash their hands in Ghana, where USAID supports prevention and treatment of trachoma, a blinding eye disease.
An End in Sight to Ghana's Trachoma Story
A Yumbe survey team learns how to use electronic tablets to collect data on trachoma.
Trachoma vs. Technology
Johnie Pierre, 13, is one of thousands of Haitian children to receive shoes through the Haiti Neglected Tropical Disease Control
Drug-Shoe Combination Aims to Stomp Out Haiti’s Neglected Diseases