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Handwashing: a critical starting point for healthy communities and a first response to a crisis
Posted on Friday, September 25, 2020 04:47 PM
The sudden and rapid onset of COVID-19 globally was met with great anxiety in Solomon Islands where a weak and under-resourced health system, coupled with shortages of locally...

No one left behind: Building capacity of all in healthcare facilities in Myanmar
Posted on Friday, September 25, 2020 04:28 PM
In five townships in the Ayeyarwaddy Region of Myanmar, WaterAid is promoting adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention and control (IPC) as...

Dispelling myths, raising awareness and preparing for COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2020 12:45 AM
When word of a new, unknown and potentially deadly virus started spreading in Papua New Guinea (PNG), many people were terrified.
Understanding little about COVID-19, its...

Growing from Strength to Strength: the Ruteng women PAR group tackles COVID-19
Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:15 PM
As you weave through the rolling landscape of Eastern Indonesia, up along mountain ridges, past lines of banana trees, clusters of coffee plants and cattle wandering alongside...

Overcoming the barriers: COVID-19 prevention in Bangladesh
Posted on Monday, September 07, 2020 01:30 AM
“Now I have access and I can easily wash my hands to protect myself from Coronavirus.”
Sufia lives in Gaibandha district in Bangladesh, she is a 55 years old and happy...
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