AFRO-NETS> Environmental Health Project - discussion on safe excreta disposal

["Campbell, Dan" <CampbellDB@ehproject.org>]

Environmental Health Project - discussion on safe excreta disposal
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Dear Colleagues:

For the past 2 weeks, the Environmental Health Project has been mod-
erating a discussion on safe excreta disposal and Diarrhoea Preven-
tion in Children Under 5.

The sub-topic introductions, summaries and comments from participants 
are now posted on the EHP website at: 
http://www.ehproject.org/Library/ExcretaDisposalNet.htm

We welcome others to join in the discussion and to send an email to: 
mailto:info@ehproject.org if you would like to be added to the dis-
cussion mailing list. 
Below is the introduction for the discussion.


Dear Network Subscribers:

Welcome to the Information Exchange Network.

The EHP Information Centre will serve as the moderator for the forum, 
which will have a time frame of four weeks.

As you all know, the topic for the discussion is: "Proper Excreta 
Disposal and its Impact on Diarrhoea Prevention in Children Under 5." 
We plan to organize our discussions around different sub-topics. We 
will discuss each sub-topic for a few days and then move on to an-
other sub-topic. Our first sub-topic for discussion relates to the 
definition of proper excreta disposal--what we all understand by 
proper excreta disposal. This appears to be a logical topic to start 
off our discussions.

Other anticipated sub-topics are as follows:
-Barriers to proper excreta disposal 
-Programmatic approaches for the sanitary disposal of children's
  excreta 
-What's been done in Operations research/literature? 
-Gaps and next steps. 

However, based on the direction the discussions take, we will amend 
the sub-topics as necessary. We have a great group of experts and I 
hope and expect that we will be able to generate stimulating and use-
ful ideas and information. Below we have our first discussant. Have a 
look at what he has to say and send in your thoughts, ideas, com-
ments.

The Moderator 
EHP Information Centre
mailto:CampbellDB@EHProject.org


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