Knowledge section
- Research shows that, if widely practiced, handwashing with soap could reduce diarrhea by almost fifty percent and respiratory infections by nearly twenty-five percent. (Fewtrell et al., 2005)
- A large-scale increase in the practice of handwashing with soap would make a significant contribution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal 5: reducing deaths among children under five by two-thirds by 2015.
- 4% of the global disease burden could be prevented by improving water supply, sanitation, and hygiene
Source:http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/facts_figures/en/index.html