Resources by POUZN Project

= Recommended

Resource	Description	Requests	Contributor
Distribution of Point of Use Water Treatment Product Through Mutual Health Organizations in Rwanda: Baseline Survey Results 2008	Mutual health organizations (MHOs) are voluntary community-based health insurance organizations that focus on informal sector, low-income populations.	129	POUZN Project
POUZN Contributions to the PSP-One Resource Center 2007	A quick link to all of the resources POUZN has contributed to the PSP-One Resource Center.	813	POUZN Project
Environmental Health Project-Bibliography on Point-of-Use Water Disinfection 2007	Resource for more information on the POUZN project and activities.		POUZN Project
Social Marketing Zinc to Improve Diarrhea Treatment Practices - Findings and Lessons Learned from Cambodia 2007	Diarrhea is one of the main causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in low-income settings and Cambodia is no exception. Data from the Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS) in 2005 indicate that 20% of children under the age of five had diarrhea in the two weeks preceding the survey, similar to the prevalence found in the 2000 CDHS. In early 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF published a Joint Statement recommending the use of a new formulation of oral rehydration salts (ORS) along with therapeutic doses of zinc for the treatment of children under five during diarrhea episodes.	636	POUZN Project
Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Options in Developing Countries: A Review of Current Implementation Practices 2007	This article summarizes five of the most common household water treatment and storage options including chlorination, filtration (biosand and ceramic), solar disinfection, combined filtration/chlorination, and combined flocculation/chlorination, and describes implementation strategies for each option.	369	POUZN Project
Best Practices in Social Marketing Safe Water Solution for Household Water Treatment: Lessons Learned from 20 Population Services International Field Programs 2007	Since 1998 Population Services International (PSI), with the funding and support of the U.S. Agency for International Development and other donors, has been involved in the implementation of safe water programs in 20 developing countries, promoting the Safe Water System (SWS), a household water treatment and safe storage strategy originally designed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in response to cholera outbreaks in Latin America.	3382	POUZN Project
Bringing safe water to remote populations: An evaluation of a portable point-of-use intervention in rural Madagascar 2007	Rural populations disproportionately lack access to improved water supplies. We evaluated a novel scheme that employed community-based sales agents to disseminate the Safe Water System (SWS)--a household-level water chlorination and safe storage intervention--in rural Madagascar.	224	POUZN Project
Impact of Zinc Supplementation on Subsequent Morbidity and Growth 2007	This study was conducted to explore whether supplementation of zinc to children during persistent diarrhea has any subsequent effect on morbidity and growth.	278	POUZN Project
Qualitative Research for a Zinc Treatment Program in Nepal: Findings and Recommendations 2006	This study provides results of formative research conducted in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal in focus group sessions with caregivers from varying socio-economic subgroups and in-depth interviews with 30 pharmacists.	458	POUZN Project
Contamination of drinking water between source and point-of-use in rural households of South Africa and Zimbabwe: implications for monitoring the Millennium Development Goal for water. 2006	Aims: To assess contamination of drinking water in rural Zimbabwe and South Africa Methods: We conducted a cohort study of 254 children aged 12-24 months in rural South Africa and Zimbabwe.	315	POUZN Project
Zinc Supplementation for the Treatment of Diarrhea in Infants in Pakistan, India and Ethiopia 2006	OBJECTIVE: This randomized, placebo controlled trial was designed to assess the safety and efficacy of 10-mg zinc supplementation for the treatment of acute diarrhea in infants.	656	POUZN Project
Pediatric Zinc as Treatment for Diarrhea 2006	Every year approximately 1.7 million children die as a result of diarrhea and dehydration. In the majority of cases, this is preventable through exclusive breastfeeding, improved hygiene and sanitation and access to clean water, yet diarrhea is still one of the leading causes of death among children under five.	407	POUZN Project
Point-of-Use Water Treatment Products 2006	This one-page document provides a description of three point-of-use water treatments currently being used in developing countries as a way to reduce the prevalence of water-borne bacterial agents known to cause diarrhea.	445	POUZN Project
The Role of Zinc in Child Health 2006	Provides an overview of the beneficial properties of zinc in treating diarrhea, respiratory infection, and in general child health. Summarizes research findings and discusses physiological processes and metabolic functions affected by zinc.	268	POUZN Project
Enhanced Diarrheal Disease Control 2006	Provides links to wealth of zinc materials, including an extensive bibliography of literature on zinc research with links to several full text articles.	1536	POUZN Project
Bibliography on Point-of-Use Water Disinfection 2006	This bibliography (and its associated webpage) provides links to abstracts, full text articles, and webpages of organizations working on various aspects of point-of-use water treatment.	876	POUZN Project
3rd International Zinc Conference (24-25 April 2006): Recent Advances in Scaling up Zinc 2006	This web link will take the reader to the ICDDRB website and access to all presentations from the meeting where lessons learned were shared from India, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia, East Timor, Pakistan and Uganda.	1203	POUZN Project
FAQs Zinc Supplementation 2006	As zinc supplements are a new treatment for diarrhoea mothers may have difficult questions regarding the treatment. Within this FAQ document are a few issues and concerns expressed by mothers in research regarding zinc supplementation and their accompanying responses.	360	POUZN Project
Point-of-use and Household-based Water Treatment Citations 2006	Here are a number of citations for key journal articles on point-of-use or household-based water treatment: Mintz ED, Reiff FM, Tauxe RV. Safe water treatment and storage in the home: a practical new strategy to prevent waterborne disease.		POUZN Project
SUZY - Scaling Up Zinc Treatment for Young Children with Diarrhoea in Bangladesh 2006	This website describes the SUZY project, research and zinc treatment programs undertaken by the ICDDR,B.	1288	POUZN Project