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Water and Sanitation
Sanitation and Health
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June 3, 2015

This is one article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation. Summary Points 2.6 billion people in the world lack adequate sanitation—the safe disposal of human excreta. Lack of sanitation contributes to about 10% of the global disease burden, causing mainly diarrhoeal diseases. In the past, government agencies have typically built sanitation… Read more

Health, Sanitation
The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes
Document Library
June 3, 2015

The contribution of contraception to reductions in obstetric mortality and morbidity is universally acknowledged. One major pathway is by reducing the number of unwanted births. Each pregnancy and childbirth carry a health risk for the woman, and where obstetric services are poor, maternal mortality is still very high. In most Asian and Latin American countries… Read more

Family Planning, Health
Linking child survival and child development for health, equity, and sustainable development
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June 3, 2015

Considerable progress has been made over the past decade towards Millennium Development Goal 4. The number of deaths among children younger than 5 years has declined from 12 million in 1990 to 6·9 million in 2011.1 But do the surviving children have an equal chance to realise their human potential, achieve social justice, and contribute… Read more

Equity, Health
Health
Nutrition
Health and nutrition drivers in urban areas
Helpdesk Report
April 15, 2015

On average, urban health levels are better than those in rural areas. However, averages can be misleading: once the data are disaggregated, it is clear that the urban poor face health risks often as high as and sometimes worse than those of rural residents, despite the proximity of modern health services (UNFPA, 2012). This report… Read more

Health, Nutrition, urban poor, Urbanisation
Health
Local Engagement in Ebola Outbreaks and Beyond in Sierra Leone
Document Library
March 4, 2015

Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are therefore vital. Unfortunately such approaches have not been widespread in West Africa where response strategies have been predominantly top-down. Authoritarian tactics have had questionable effect, potentially worsening… Read more

Ebola, Health, Politics and Power
Gender
Health
Social Protection
The Pathology of Inequality: Gender and Ebola in West Africa
Document Library
March 4, 2015

The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, we need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that enabled Ebola to move so rapidly across boundaries of people’s bodies, villages, towns and countries. Gender… Read more

Ebola, Gender, Health
Health
Urbanisation, the Peri-urban Growth and Zoonotic Disease
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March 4, 2015

Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling with and living in close proximity to urban and elite populations. These interconnections fuel the spread of Ebola. The degradation of natural resources, temporary… Read more

Ebola, Health, Urbanisation, Zoonoses
Health
Ebola and Extractive Industry
Document Library
March 4, 2015

The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore geological beltway. The macroeconomic impacts of the crisis came into sharp focus when London Mining, Sierra Leone’s second… Read more

Ebola, Health, Industry
Health
Ebola, Politics and Ecology: Beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative’
Document Library
March 4, 2015

The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre. Understanding how these factors may have combined in south-eastern Guinea near the end of 2013 requires us to rethink elements of the familiar Ebola ‘outbreak… Read more

Ebola, Health, Politics and Power, Zoonoses
Health
Return of the Rebel: Legacies of War and Reconstruction in West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic
Document Library
March 4, 2015

The spread of Ebola in West Africa centres on a region with a shared recent history of transnational civil war and internationally led post-conflict reconstruction efforts. This legacy of conflict and shortcomings in the reconstruction efforts are key to understanding how the virus has spread. The dynamics of warfare tied into and accentuated the state’s… Read more

Conflict and Security, Ebola, Health
Health
Strengthening Health Systems for Resilience
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March 4, 2015

In countries with high levels of poverty or instability and with poor health system management and governance, people are highly vulnerable to shocks associated with ill health, including major epidemics. An effective health system can help build their resilience by reducing exposure to infection and minimising the impact of sickness on livelihoods and economic development…. Read more

Ebola, Health
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