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Essential services for quality care: water, sanitation, hygiene, health care waste and electricity services...
This report provides the latest progress in ensuring universal access to water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), waste and electricity services in health care...
WHO global water, sanitation and hygiene: annual report 2024
The WHO Results Report 2024–2025 indicates that global access to safely managed drinking-water services rose from 71.0% in 2018 to a projected 87.3%...
Strategic actions for infection prevention and control and water, sanitation and hygiene during mpox...
The mpox IPC and WASH strategy focuses on strengthening two major components of the response: 1) safe and scalable care within health-care facilities and...
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WHO global water, sanitation and hygiene: annual report 2024
The WHO Results Report 2024–2025 indicates that global access to safely managed drinking-water services rose from 71.0% in 2018 to a projected 87.3%...
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WHO water, sanitation and hygiene strategy 2018-2025
This strategy sets out the direction and role of WHO within the context of the SDGs and WHO’s 13th Programme of Work. It reinforces WHO’s...
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