<div dir="ltr"><div>Did you wash your hands yet today?</div>
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<div>It is simply stunning how many deaths in the developing world could be prevented by getting the handwashing message out there. Respiratory and diarrheal illnesses are two of the three leading causes of death (in children under 5 years old), handwashing has a substantial impact on reducing both of these major causes of morbidity and mortality.</div>
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<div>The Health pages on the wiki could use some love, there hasn't been a lot of activity since earlier this year. <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Health">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Health</a></div>
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<div>Is there anyone out there that is willing to do some work on (for instance <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Water_and_sanitation">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Water_and_sanitation</a> ) in honor of Global Handwashing Day?</div>
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<div>Compiling links to high quality information with suitable copyright/licensing status, reaching out to various organizations to change copyright public health materials to Creative Commons or other open licensing, these are all things that begin to move the dial, however slowly. </div>
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<div>OLPC's content development process is still somewhat opaque and difficult to navigate, I'm glad that my notes on the development of a prototype Health Portal seem to have stimulated some interest in the concept and in particular in the steps that would be needed to create a suitably localized/regionalized spin on it. In the meantime, collecting links to good information on the wiki is still a valuable exercise that can help put some urgency behind pushing forward the content development and presentation infrastructure and you never know who will take inspiration from something you put up on the wiki.</div>
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<div>cjl<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Johnson, Lucy</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:l.johnson@imperial.ac.uk">l.johnson@imperial.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:29 AM<br>Subject: [schoolhealth] Today is Global Handwashing Day!<br>To: schoolhealth <<a href="mailto:schoolhealth@imperial.ac.uk">schoolhealth@imperial.ac.uk</a>><br><br><br>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Dear Colleagues,</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">The first-ever Global Handwashing Day is being held</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"> today -</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"> Wednesday October 15th 2008. As 2008 is the UN International Year of Sanitation, the Global Handwashing Day reinforces the call for improved hygiene practices.</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">For more information visit</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> </span><a href="http://www.globalhandwashingday.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">www.globalhandwashingday.org</font></u></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></a><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-gb"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">On the Schools and Health site, information on water and sanitation can be found on the following pages under the 'Water and Sanitation' topic heading:</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Resource links:</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Document downloads:</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> </span><a href="http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/Pages/DocumentDownloads.aspx" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">www.schoolsandhealth.org/Pages/DocumentDownloads.aspx</font></u></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></a><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-gb"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Country programmes:</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> </span><a href="http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/Pages/Country.asp" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">www.schoolsandhealth.org/Pages/Country.asp</font></u></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></a><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-gb"> </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Best wishes,</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Lucy</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">L</font><font face="Calibri">ucinda Johnson</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Programme Manager</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">The Partnership for Child Development</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Faculty of Medicine</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Imperial College London</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Norfolk Place</font></span></p>
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