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UNICEF helps Vietnam improve environmental sanitation

A programme on environmental sanitation jointly carried out by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Health in Vietnam since 2009 has contributed to raising public awareness of using hygienic toilets and giving up the indiscriminate defecation habit.
A programme on environmental sanitation jointly carried out by theUnited Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Health inVietnam since 2009 has contributed to raising public awareness of usinghygienic toilets and giving up the indiscriminate defecation habit.

Theprogramme has implemented in over 900 villages in seven provincesnationwide, benefiting 184,000 rural households with more than 220,000children. As many as 125 villages have been recognised as those withhygienic household toilets.

According to UNICEF Vietnam,similar programmes have helped about 26 million people in more than 50countries give up the habit of defecating in the open.

UNICEFsaid about 2.5 billion people worldwide have not yet used hygienictoilets, putting themselves and their children at risk of sufferingdeadly diseases such diarrhoea.

In 2013, over 340,000 childrenunder five died of diarrhoea resulted from the shortage of clean waterand the unawareness of environmental sanitation and personal hygiene.-VNA
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