AED pioneered the use of easy–to–adopt practices‚ called “small‚ doable actions‚” that home–based health programs are using to greatly improve the well–being of people living with HIV and AIDS.

The water‚ sanitation‚ and hygiene‚ or WASH–friendly practices‚ include using a container with a narrow neck to store drinking water that has been chemically treated‚ keeping water jugs covered and off the floor‚ and washing hands with soap or ash.

“It is a terrible irony that effective medications to treat HIV and AIDS are often taken with contaminated water that may infect patients with a life–threatening illness‚” said Julia Rosenbaum‚ deputy project director in the AED Center for Global Health Communication and Marketing.

In Ethiopia‚ AED’s Hygiene Improvement Project and three local NGOs trained more than 1‚200 health care workers on the WASH practices. The workers‚ in turn‚ are passing on this knowledge to nearly 10‚000 people living with HIV and their families.

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