Basic services continue to deteriorate, particularly in the health, water and sanitation sectors.

Rural sanitation could also be improved through strengthening health extension services.

These include child mortality, malaria, water and sanitation, maternal health, HIV AIDS and child malnutrition.

Poor hygiene, sanitation and water exacerbate poverty by reducing productivity and elevating health care costs.

They are advised about infant malnutrition, nutrition, day care centres, sanitation and baby oral health.

These priorities include water scarcity and pollution sanitation, safe drinking water and health gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation integrated water resources management transboundary water issues and disaster reduction.

Service delivery in basic health and water and sanitation has improved, along with efforts to strengthen breastfeeding practices.

Water Supply and Basic Household Sanitation The National Health Foundation will serve 13 communities (or groups of communities).

Various programmes had been undertaken in the areas of education, health, safe drinking water and sanitation, and rural development.

Increased use of safe water and sanitation facilities and improved hygiene practices contribute significantly to public health programmes in general.

The elimination of illiteracy, adult basic education and education in the areas of health, preventive medicine and sanitation are essential.

Public and home lighting, refrigeration of food, medicine and vaccines, and heating and proper sanitation help improve people's living conditions and health.

In this case, public health education and hygiene awareness raising, including through mass media, could create demand for sanitation services.

There are several factors that affect health, such as environmental quality, malnutrition, poverty, poor human settlements and inadequate sanitation facilities.

As the rainy season starts, the sanitation conditions could deteriorate further, posing serious health risks to its population.

The Government's capacity to deliver services to the population, particularly in the areas of education, health and sanitation, needs sustained attention.

Programmes that combine improved sanitation and hand washing facilities in schools with hygiene education can improve the health of children for life.

The specific health care needs of women required urgent attention, notably in the areas of HIV AIDS, malaria, potable water and sanitation.

Sustained investment was critical in giving women better access to education, primary health care, reproductive health care, drinking water and sanitation, and the economic resources they needed to stand on their own feet.

14.3 Over the past decade water and sanitation, two crucial development issues that have direct implications for community and child health have been improved.

Deeply concerned by the slow and insufficient progress in providing access to basic sanitation services, and conscious of the impact of the lack of sanitation on people's health, poverty reduction and economic and social development, and on the environment, in particular water resources,

The Committee notes with appreciation the efforts undertaken by the State party to extend the coverage of the health and basic sanitation services.

With the November 2004 crisis, the already fragile humanitarian situation in Côte d'Ivoire deepened, especially in the education, health, water and sanitation sectors.

We need initial upfront investment to train doctors, nurses, health administration and community health workers throughout the country, to set up the information technology, the solar energy, the water and sanitation, the transportation infrastructure.

Adequate water and sanitation provision, together with hygiene education and efficient solid waste collection and disposal, are crucial to safeguarding public health in human settlements.

A system developed by scientists and funded from the State budget provides medical monitoring, clinical examinations, illness diagnosis and treatment, sanitation and therapy in sanatoriums and health resorts mitigate to some extent the health damage suffered.

Additional resources for the health, water and sanitation, and agricultural sectors are urgently needed to complement the significant food aid contributions that have been made.

UNICEF programmes on nutrition, education, psychological health, water and sanitation, landmines and protection in complex emergencies seek to mitigate the impact of conflict on children.

A particularly effective demonstration effect has been the provision of sanitation facilities in schools to complement health and hygiene education in the school curriculum.

The international community continues to play a pivotal role in the provision of basic services, such as facilities for education, health, water and sanitation.

Towards the end of the year, we were close to meeting them for food, nutrition and health services, though not for water, sanitation or shelter.

Within the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, IFRC programmes in the areas of health, water, sanitation and hygiene had contributed to improving the health of vulnerable communities around the world.

Poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and inadequate water supply and sanitation, as well as poor health, affect a large proportion of the people who reside in the African continent.

9.1 Water and sanitation

Liveable housing and sanitation.

The scope of work of UN Water also includes sanitation, encompassing both access to and use of sanitation by populations and the interactions between sanitation and freshwater.

Sanitation

Several delegates supported the multi faceted approach of the focus area, including the focus on high impact health and nutrition interventions, water and environmental sanitation and dracunculiasis eradication.

Target 2 Support to programmes to deliver nutrition, child and maternal health, water, sanitation and hygiene related services and commodities, and to convergent service delivery among the most disadvantaged

The experience of workers' organizations in promoting occupational health and safety, including through worker education and awareness raising, could provide valuable lessons for improving sanitation in the workplace.

The risks include health risks from overcrowding and poor sanitation, increased vulnerability to natural disasters and risks of eviction and economic vulnerability because of the lack of secure employment.

It could easily provide clean drinking water, sanitation, education, and health care to every human being on the planet, while increasing CO2 reducing R D ten fold.

Although much remains to be done, international agencies have made commendable efforts in responding to the needs of the refugees for food, water, sanitation, health and education.

As at 9 May 2005, 57 quick impact projects were being implemented in various areas including agriculture, education, health, HIV AIDS, rehabilitation of infrastructure, water and sanitation.

Water system, sanitation and utilities