“Tens of thousands of faith-based health care facilities around the world serve populations in impoverished areas where there might otherwise be no health care. But from maternal and newborn infections and deaths to dozens of illnesses and diseases, from malnutrition to the growing global crisis of antibiotic resistance, the root of health problems often returns to one thing, and it’s the absence of WASH: water, sanitation and hygiene.”
Read the full article written by Susan K. Barnett, Founder of Faiths for Safe Water, and published in the Fall 2024 edition of HEALTH PROGRESS, the official journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States.