We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Collaboration, cholera, and cyclones: a project to improve point-of-use water quality in Madagascar.
- Authors
Dunston, C; McAfee, D; Kaiser, R; Rakotoarison, D; Rambeloson, L; Hoang, A T; Quick, R E
- Abstract
In November 1999, CARE Madagascar, Population Services International (PSI), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) selected 30 poor communities in urban Antananarivo as the target population for launch of the Safe Water System. The system consists of behavior change techniques along with point-of-use treatment and safe storage of water. The project was launched in March 2000, ahead of schedule, because a cholera epidemic struck Madagascar in January. Because of the enormous demand created by the cholera epidemic and by 3 cyclones that followed in the next 3 months, the project grew to national scale in less than a year. The combination of community mobilization and social marketing resulted in increased demand for and use of the Safe Water System.
- Publication
American journal of public health, 2001, Vol 91, Issue 10, p1574
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/ajph.91.10.1574