Sanitation Updates

Organised by: Regional Capacity Building Partners (RECABIP), Nairobi, Kenya

Many development institutions have done very little to understand the contextual impacts of HIV and AIDS on Water, Hygiene and Environmental Sanitation programmes and have not integrated programmatic actions to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS, and mitigate its impact in their programmes. Similarly, AIDS service organizations have not analyzed the role of safe water, sanitation and Hygiene in fostering quality care, prevention, treatment, impact mitigation services at individual, household and community level. The Course focuses on strengthening skills, knowledge and understanding practical mainstreaming tools and processes.

Course fees: US $1,000 (excluding international travel, accommodation and food).

RECABIP is a network of professional organisations and individuals engaged in capacity building workshops, seminars, conferences and consultancy services in the fields of HIV and AIDS, Climate Change, Governance and Leadership issues. [ Note: the website provides no list of names with CVs of individual members of RECABIP, no names of clients, no annual report etc.]

Full information and application details are available on the RECABIP web site

For more info on HIV/AIDS and WASH see the IRC web site

New Vision (Kampala), 20 April 2008, Posted to the web 21 April 2008.
Aidah Nanyonjo, Kampala
Uganda: Clean Water Essential for People Living With Aids

LACK of clean water increases the risk of diarrhoea among people living with HIV/AIDS, the executive director of the Uganda Water and Sanitation Network, John Byarugaba, has said.

The immuno-compromised status of people living with HIV/AIDS renders them more susceptible to opportunistic infections, including those related to water and sanitation,” he explained.
This situation calls for the integration of sanitation issues into AIDS programmes. The scope should include aspects of risks and benefits associated with hygiene, hand washing, faecal management, safe water and waste disposal.

He was speaking during a workshop on HIV/AIDS and Sanitation at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala, recently. (…)

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A Powerpoint presentation by Merri Weinger, USAID, given at the Side Meeting on Sanitation, Hygiene and HIV/AIDS Sanitation, Hygiene and HIV/AIDS at the AfricaSan 2008 Conference.

Read the presentation (PDF, 380 KB)

In 2007, Catholic Relief Services and the Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) conducted a workshop in Malawi on the Integration of Water Sanitation and Hygiene into HIV/AIDS Home-Based Care Strategies.

The background and discussion papers, an annotated bibliography and the workshop final report are now posted on the Environmental Health at USAID website.