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UK announces new support for improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in Asia and Africa

UK announces new support for improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in Asia and Africa

The UK has announced a new 5-year programme to improve access to safe, reliable and affordable water supplies and sanitation services, benefitting millions in Asia and Africa.

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£18.5 million in UK funding will help provide safe, reliable, and affordable water supply sanitation and hygiene services that help prevent disease, protect people’s health and safeguard the environment from pollution.

The funding will also support improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene services in schools, including menstrual hygiene, and in health facilities where it will have a major impact on reducing infection and improving quality of care received by patients.

Between 2010 and 2020, UK funding helped over 120 million people gain access to clean water supplies and sanitation

The provision of safe water supply, sanitation and hygiene services helps protect people, especially young children, from diarrhoea, cholera and other killer diseases

“Access to water is a human right and it is shocking that by 2030, 1.6 billion people will still not have access to a safe, reliable water supply

We urgently need to scale up global action, to support governments to strengthen and improve water sanitation and hygiene services.

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