Apr 6 2013
The March/April issue of USAID's "FrontLines" focuses on access to safe water and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In his "Insights" column, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah writes, "While we have seen tremendous progress -- halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water since 1990 -- we still have far to go, and we cannot go alone. We have to leverage the expertise, commitment and resources of a range of partners, from the global private sector to local civil society organizations." He continues, "The truth is, meeting this challenge is about more than expanding access to clean water and adequate sanitation. It is about eliminating the conditions that put millions of children at significantly heightened risk of contracting painful, debilitating [NTDs]" (March/April 2013).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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