Hydraulic ram pumps and Sling Pumps

GARNET - Global Applied Research Network - Hygiene Behaviour Network Newsletter Issue no. 2: June 1995behaviour. I was responsible for "minding" this issue which meant that Ihad to get five articles together on the theme of hygiene behaviour for theeditors of Waterlines to do the layout and copy-editing. Unfortunately,despite considerable time spent in liaising with authors andeditors/publishers, some errors were printed and had to be corrected byinserting a few lines in the April issue of the journal. Apologies to ourcolleagues in Kenya and Tanzania who spotted the errors. The lessonlearned is, "make sure you can proof-read final versions of your articlesbefore the editors send them off for printing"!A brief summary of the contents might be helpful to those of you who havenot seen this issue. An update of research progress on hygiene behaviourwas outlined in the lead article (Almedom and Curtis). The second articleproposed some effective and measurable indicators for sanitation anddiscussed their practical applicability and use (Almedom and Chatterjee).The third article described some important findings of a detailed studywhich investigated the socio-cultural constraints on the use andmaintenance of improved water sources in Sukumaland, Tanzania(Drangert). The fourth contribution discussed a qualitative study ofweaning food hygiene in Guatemala which formed the basis for aneducational intervention (de Tejada and Cano). The fifth article describedthe process of developing an effective communication intervention inGuatemala aimed at improving handwashing practices with the aim ofreducing diarrhoeal diseases (Hurtado and Booth).Recent References (Medline, Embase, etc., 1990-95) with Abstracts1. Aulia, H. Surapaty, SC, Bahar, E, Susanto, TA Roisuddin, Hamzah, M,Ismail, R (1994). Personal and domestic hygiene and its relationship to theincidence of diarrhoea in south Sumatera. J-Diarrhoeal-Dis-Res. 12(1): 42-8.Abstract:The association of risk factors and diarrhoeal disease incidence amongchildren less than 3 years of age in District Rambutan, South Sumatera,was investigated by a 20-week case-control study of 48 households with ahigh incidence of diarrhoeas diseases and 111 households with lowincidence. Among socio-demographic characteristics, television ownershiphad a significant negative association with diarrhoeal disease incidence(odds ratio [OR] 3.22). The hygiene behaviour significantly associated withdiarrhoeal diseases were: disposing of children's faeces in open placeshttp://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cv/wedc/garnet/hybnews.html (10 of 20) [1/13/2005 12:50:12 PM]