Resources

FRENCH version.

Operator's manual for using incinerators.

A detailed guide on the technical specifications and instructions for building a De Montfort incinerator.

This guidebook is intended to be a practical guide for selecting, purchasing, installing, operating, and maintaining small-scale incinerators in low-resource settings. Small-scale refers to incinerators with a capacity to destroy approximately 12 to 100 kilograms of waste per hour. This guide was designed to help program planners address the challenges of safe management of health care waste.

A one page explanation of how to use an incinerator.  

A short advocacy brief that discusses the impact WASH has on safe, quality healthcare delivery as well as health outcomes, not limited to COVID-19.

Presentations by WHO AFRO and WHO Geneva at the AFRO Regional Leadership Summit on WASH in HCF in April 2021.

Presentation given at the 2021 Africa Regional Leaders Summit on WASH in HCF, hosted virtually by WHO AFRO. Presentations were made by the following countries: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda

This is a consolidation of low-cost low-tech design & construction guidance for building mobile hands-free Handwashing with Soap Stations in UNICEF's East and South African Region countries, with the aim of reducing risks of disease transmission and increasing desirability for hand hygiene.

This document describes an approach for conducting a national situational analysis of water, sanitation hygiene (WASH) as a basis for improving quality of care. A situational analysis is the first of the eight “practical steps” recommended by WHO and UNICEF as a means to trigger action to improve and sustain WASH in health care facilities, a prerequisite for providing quality care.