Programmes delivering purely preventive interventions (e.g. bed-net distribution and community-based hygiene education programmes) were excluded.
Yet this taboo subject is still largely neglected by WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) education programmes and initiatives.
Although we're seeing a steady increase in awareness raising campaigns that demonstrate the link between health and good hygiene -- from the WHO's Clean Care is Safe Care programme through to the Global Public Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap -- more needs to be done to ensure that governments prioritise hygiene education programmes.
New facilities need to be paired with hygiene education programmes for children and teachers.
Sanitation and hygiene education programmes were started to teach good sanitation practices to the community.
In Burundi and Zimbabwe, emergency hygiene promotion programmes in camps and communities resulted in higher levels of hygiene awareness and an increased demand by local authorities for hygiene education programmes.
UNICEF is also working to meet a second target of ensuring that all schools have adequate child-friendly water and sanitation facilities and hygiene education programmes.
As part of the fight against Guinea worm and other water-bourne diseases, UNICEF Ghana is supporting the implementation of safe water supply systems and sanitation facilities, as well as hygiene education programmes.
Based on a review of the literature, the researchers assembled two thematic versions (animal theme, sports theme) of a sleep hygiene education programme covering three main sleep hygiene categories of sleep routine, sleep environment and eating and drinking habits before bedtime.
CWSD does not have the capacity to effectively promote a hygiene education programme.
Our findings suggest the F.E.R.R.E.T sleep hygiene education programme might be effective in improving sleep in children and adolescents.
