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LSHTM expertise helps global handwashing campaign reach a billion people
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£100m programme is helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19 around the world Share
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s (LSHTM) expertise in behaviour change and programme evaluation has played a major role in a global programme aimed at tackling the spread of COVID-19 to achieve a major milestone.
One billion people in developing countries have now been reached with hygiene promotion, hygiene products and access to handwashing facilities by the Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition (HBCC), a £100m programme led by the UK government and British business Unilever.
18 April 2021
The world’s largest hygiene campaign aimed at tackling the spread of Covid-19 has reached one billion people.
The UK Government and Unilever partnered to provide soap, sanitiser and surface disinfectants to developing countries, where there is little or no sanitation.
This comes as the UK-backed COVAX scheme reaches deliveries of vaccines to 100 countries and territories.
One billion people in developing countries have now been reached with advice, hygiene products and access to handwashing facilities in a campaign launched between the UK government and British business Unilever to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
Working through the UN, charities and other partners, the campaign has:
UK aid and Unilever reach one billion people with global hygiene campaign to tackle Covid-19
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The world’s largest hygiene campaign aimed at tackling the spread of Covid-19 has reached one billion people.
The UK Government and Unilever partnered to provide soap, sanitiser and surface disinfectants to developing countries, where there is little or no sanitation.
This comes as the UK-backed COVAX scheme reaches deliveries of vaccines to 100 countries and territories.
One billion people in developing countries have now been reached with advice, hygiene products and access to handwashing facilities in a campaign launched between the UK government and British business Unilever to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
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