ORGANIZATION
USAID
YEAR PUBLISHED
2004
DESCRIPTION
New research shows that safe drinking water dramatically improves the health of all poor people, including HIV-positive people. An abstract presented at the 13th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2003, suggests that use of a safe water system (SWS) resulted in a 37 percent reduction of risk of diarrhea in people with HIV/AIDS. Simply put, SWS is an easy to use, three-step procedure to ensure the availability of clean water.