{"id":5910,"date":"2019-10-15T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"we-should-make-washing-hands-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/15\/we-should-make-washing-hands-a-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"We Should Make Washing Hands A Way Of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every 23\nseconds, a child dies from either pneumonia or diarrhoea worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is despite the fact that we know access to safe water, adequate sanitation and proper hygiene education \u2014 or WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) \u2014 can reduce illness and death and have an impact on poverty reduction and socio-economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The simple\nact of handwashing, for example, is the single-most cost-effective way of\nstopping child deaths. It can reduce the incidence of pneumonia by 23 per cent\nand diarrhoea by up to 45 per cent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/We-should-make-washing-hands-a-way-of-life\/440808-5309830-r938duz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Every 23 seconds, a child dies from either pneumonia or diarrhoea worldwide. This is despite the fact that we know access to safe water, adequate sanitation and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}