CENTRE FOR SANITATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION (CENSAHEP) UGANDA
- Dennis Lukaaya
- Kampala, Central, Uganda
- Mobile:+256(0) 772 662 062 Email:lukaaya@yahoo.com OR censahepuganda@gmail.com
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Uganda: Over 10 Million Lack Access to Safe Water
BY GODFREY OJORE, 22 MARCH 2012Most of those without access either live in hard-to-reach areas or parts of the country that have been affected by war.
Speaking during the launch of Water Aid/EU funded post-conflict project in Soroti, Alice Anukur, the country representative Water Aid Uganda said they are intervening to rescue communities from such places.
"The project we are launching has a goal of equitable and sustainable access to safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene for poor communities in post conflict areas of Uganda, Ankur said.
The five-year project worth €2,744,312 will benefit the five districts of Masindi, Pallisa, Amuria, Katakwi and Napak. The money is a grant from the European Union.
Anukur explained that the project that commenced its work nine months back will enable 36,786 communities to access safe water and 74,200 people to access good sanitation facilities within households, schools and health centers.
"In Napak, water coverage is at 49% while sanitation is less than 10%. This points to the need for greater emphasis on sanitation improvement in the district with appropriate approaches," Anukur explained.
According to the findings of Water Aid, distance was regarded as a constraint to access to safe water supply in which over 60% of the rural household reported that they travel about 1.5km or more to access safe water.
The district leaders of the five districts were present during the official launch of the project at Soroti Hotel and expressed gratitude towards Water Aid for the support.
"Amuria is lagging behind in water coverage but we are grateful today to Water Aid for donating us 14 boreholes. Water coverage in Amuria is below 50%," Alfred Malinga the CAO Amuria said.
Water Aid expects at the end of the project to see more equitable and sustainable access to water, sanitation and hygiene and also empower poor and underserved communities that hold duty bearers accountable.
About 1.1 billion people the world over cannot access safe drinking water, and still 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, according to UN reports.
And because of this massive sanitation figure, 1.8 million people die every year from diarrheal diseases, including 90% of children under the age of five.
Kenya: assessing the impact of a school-based water treatment, hygiene and sanitation programme on pupil absence
Tropical Medicine & International Health, December 2011, doi:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02927.x
Assessing the impact of a school-based water treatment, hygiene and sanitation programme on pupil absence in Nyanza Province, Kenya: a cluster-randomized trial
Matthew C. Freeman, Leslie E. Greene, et al.
Objectives There has been increased attention to access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at schools in developing countries, but a dearth of empirical studies on the impact. We conducted a cluster-randomized trial of school-based WASH on pupil absence in Nyanza Province, Kenya, from 2007 to 2008.
Methods Public primary schools nested in three geographical strata were randomly assigned and allocated to one of three study arms [water treatment and hygiene promotion (WT & HP), additional sanitation improvement, or control] to assess the effects on pupil absence at 2-year follow-up.
Results We found no overall effect of the intervention on absence. However, among schools in two of the geographical areas not affected by post-election violence, those that received WT and HP showed a 58% reduction in the odds of absence for girls (OR 0.42, CI 0.21–0.85). In the same strata, sanitation improvement in combination with WT and HP resulted in a comparable drop in absence, although results were marginally significant (OR 0.47, 0.21–1.05). Boys were not impacted by the intervention.
Conclusion School WASH improvements can improve school attendance for girls, and mechanisms for gendered impacts should be explored. Incomplete intervention compliance highlights the challenges of achieving consistent results across all settings.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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The Standard | House holds chores to burn calories
Published on 09/01/2012
Wash your car: Well, it takes 15-20 minutes to do it but will warm up your body and get the blood rushing, giving you a start to your day. Research shows that you will also burn around 80 – 100 calories and save some money too.BY BOB OTIENO
Does signing up at the gym seem like a huge task? Maybe regaining your energy levels by actively participating in daily chores can help you finally get on with your life and get fit. Interestingly, doing basic chores at home or office can help you burn off those calories and help you get more energetic. Here are a few basic chores to get started with:
Dusting the house: Keeping your house clean can help you burn approximately 210 calories an hour. So, put on some music and get started on your spring cleaning!
Cooking food: Touted as one of the most therapeutic hobbies, cooking is a lot more than a stress buster. You can burn up to 140 calories per hour but spend time cooking healthy delights. This is also because your body is always on the move all around the kitchen getting this, getting that, washing dusting and cleaning after all the work is done.
The regular Use of stairs: This is oldest and the most popular calorie burning technique that can help you burn up to 300 calories per hour. And if you add a grocery bag or weighted items to this activity, the calorie burning count can go up to 520 calories per hour! All this climbing and walking also helps in shaping up your legs, working your cardio respiratory system thus improving your stamina and performance. So next time if you were to choose, opt for the stairs than lifts or escalators.
Walk when you talk: Do not be sedentary. Literally, be mobile whenever possible, walk around the room or the gallery when you talk over phone. This gives you a break and of course and burn a few calories too. You can also walk to your neighbour’s or friends house, if its ok with them and close instead of phoning.
Getting coffee and water: It doesn’t take much time to walk up to the water cooler or dispenser or the coffee machine to get a mug full for yourself. It would help you loose 70 calories at least.
Brisk walk or Jog around your estate: During your free time, instead of lazing on the sofa watching TV, get up and keep your body on the move. Create time at least to brisk walk around your compound or estate. Such an action will keep your heart on toes, therefore help burn calories. It is also a good way to shed off some weight.
There are many other ways to burn 70-500 calories a day. These are few bonus calories that you can burn anywhere irrespective of being at a gym or a field or playing a sport. Look around and check what other activities you can add to your daily movements.
The Standard | House holds chores to burn calories
Published on 09/01/2012
Wash your car: Well, it takes 15-20 minutes to do it but will warm up your body and get the blood rushing, giving you a start to your day. Research shows that you will also burn around 80 – 100 calories and save some money too.BY BOB OTIENO
Does signing up at the gym seem like a huge task? Maybe regaining your energy levels by actively participating in daily chores can help you finally get on with your life and get fit. Interestingly, doing basic chores at home or office can help you burn off those calories and help you get more energetic. Here are a few basic chores to get started with:
Dusting the house: Keeping your house clean can help you burn approximately 210 calories an hour. So, put on some music and get started on your spring cleaning!
Cooking food: Touted as one of the most therapeutic hobbies, cooking is a lot more than a stress buster. You can burn up to 140 calories per hour but spend time cooking healthy delights. This is also because your body is always on the move all around the kitchen getting this, getting that, washing dusting and cleaning after all the work is done.
The regular Use of stairs: This is oldest and the most popular calorie burning technique that can help you burn up to 300 calories per hour. And if you add a grocery bag or weighted items to this activity, the calorie burning count can go up to 520 calories per hour! All this climbing and walking also helps in shaping up your legs, working your cardio respiratory system thus improving your stamina and performance. So next time if you were to choose, opt for the stairs than lifts or escalators.
Walk when you talk: Do not be sedentary. Literally, be mobile whenever possible, walk around the room or the gallery when you talk over phone. This gives you a break and of course and burn a few calories too. You can also walk to your neighbour’s or friends house, if its ok with them and close instead of phoning.
Getting coffee and water: It doesn’t take much time to walk up to the water cooler or dispenser or the coffee machine to get a mug full for yourself. It would help you loose 70 calories at least.
Brisk walk or Jog around your estate: During your free time, instead of lazing on the sofa watching TV, get up and keep your body on the move. Create time at least to brisk walk around your compound or estate. Such an action will keep your heart on toes, therefore help burn calories. It is also a good way to shed off some weight.
There are many other ways to burn 70-500 calories a day. These are few bonus calories that you can burn anywhere irrespective of being at a gym or a field or playing a sport. Look around and check what other activities you can add to your daily movements.
The Standard | ICT experts call for adoption of technology in health sector
Published on 04/12/2011
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Health officials are calling on the Government to speed up legal, access, and digital signature policies to scale up e-health programs in the country.
Speaking at the just concluded e-health summit in Nairobi, the experts drawn from different parts of the world said without commitment from the Government, emerging health innovations might not benefit Kenyans.
"Without specific policies to help governments harness technology in health, the advancement in ICT will not help improve the state of health," said Prof Yunkap Kwankam, Chief Executive Global eHealth Consultants.
"Strategies would make e-health have impact and contribute immensely to the betterment of health in the country," he said.
Kwankam asked the government to develop legal policies to protect digitised health records from confidentiality risks.
He also asked the Government to scale up access policies to improve penetration of infrastructure such as Internet, computers and mobile phones.
He was speaking during a two-day e-health meeting organised by Aitec in Nairobi last week.
The gathering looked progress Kenya and the continent were making in the adoption of technology in health system.
Head of E-government Dr Catherine Getao said the State had started building a data-centre to host digitised health records from various hospitals.
She said the Government-funded Sh3.9 billion data centre would help digitise and centralise health information and records.
Currently, much of the health records are held in paper form — meaning one has to physically move to access some of the information, which in some instances costly and time consuming.
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