| Week Two - Health and Sanitation, War, Conflict and Displaced People |
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Mr Dan Loden, Engineers Without Borders Education Officer Health and Sanitation in
Inadequate sanitation is a major cause of disease world-wide. Around 1.1 billion people globally do not have access to improved water supply sources and around 2.4 billion people do not have access to any type of improved sanitation facility. About 2 million people die every year due to diarrhoeal diseases, most of them are children less than 5 years of age. Populations most affected are those in developing countries and living in extreme poverty. Providing access to safe drinking water and improving sanitation is known to have a significant beneficial impact on health reduce the burden of disease. (World Health Organisation) In this lecture, Mr Dan Loden from Engineers Without Borders (EWB) will discuss the impacts of poor sanitation on human health and interventions that are effective in improving sanitation and health outcomes. He will particularly focus on the Tonle Sap Project, an initiative of EWB which aims to develop latrines suitable for use in floating and stilted communities in
Mr Graham Forward, Orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Australian Doctors for War, conflict and displaced people War and conflict can result in the large-scale movement of civilians both within the borders of a country and across international borders. These people often end up living in camps where environmental health measures are insufficient resulting in increased incidence of disease and ill health in the context of inadequate health care. Other internally displaced people may be forced to move from their homes and give up their livelihoods in rural areas to move to large cities where they have no means of providing for themselves or their families and have no access to health care. Mr Graham Forward is an orthopaedic surgeon who established Australian Doctors for Africa which provides medical care for communities in |