1. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 1 SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene

2. Slide 2  Hygiene and United Nations goals  Maintaining your personal hygiene  Securing your food supply  Maintaining your personal space  Maintaining hygienic toilet, bathing facilities  Maintaining hygienic mess, communal areas  Maintaining a hygienic camp  Hygiene and United Nations goals  Maintaining your personal hygiene  Securing your food supply  Maintaining your personal space  Maintaining hygienic toilet, bathing facilities  Maintaining hygienic mess, communal areas  Maintaining a hygienic camp

3. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 3  Combat communicable diseases  Promote optimal health, well-being  Ensure operational readiness  Combat communicable diseases  Promote optimal health, well-being  Ensure operational readiness Community concerns for peacekeepers’ hygiene

4. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 4 Good personal hygiene is best way to prevent disease

5. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 5  Wash with clean water  Eat healthy, varied foods  Exercise regularly  Dress protectively  Avoid animal and bird droppings  Inspect skin for bite marks  Keep hair short and clean  Wash with clean water  Eat healthy, varied foods  Exercise regularly  Dress protectively  Avoid animal and bird droppings  Inspect skin for bite marks  Keep hair short and clean Maintain your body

6. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 6  Wash hands regularly, especially after using the toilet  Maintain foot hygiene  Keep underwear, socks and bed linen clean  Iron clothes to kill bugs  Drink alcohol prudently  Don’t have sex without a condom  Wash hands regularly, especially after using the toilet  Maintain foot hygiene  Keep underwear, socks and bed linen clean  Iron clothes to kill bugs  Drink alcohol prudently  Don’t have sex without a condom Maintain your body

7. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 7 Food  Eat varied food!  Peel it!  Boil it!  Cook it!  Or forget it!!!!!  Eat varied food!  Peel it!  Boil it!  Cook it!  Or forget it!!!!!

8. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 8 Drink only:  Bottled water  “Potable” water  Water boiled for 10 minutes  Treated with purification tablets Drink only:  Bottled water  “Potable” water  Water boiled for 10 minutes  Treated with purification tablets Water?

9. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 9 Refrain from eating at outside catering facilities!

10. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 10  Use screens, sleep under net  Wash surfaces, don’t keep food  Ventilate rooms, bedding in sunlight  Use screens, sleep under net  Wash surfaces, don’t keep food  Ventilate rooms, bedding in sunlight Your personal space ― Take care of it!

11. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 11  Use designated toilet facilities, nowhere else!  Be clean and neat in bathing, toilet practices  Don’t wash items in personal bathing places  Use designated toilet facilities, nowhere else!  Be clean and neat in bathing, toilet practices  Don’t wash items in personal bathing places

12. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 12  Maintain camp cleanliness!  Dispose of leftover food properly  Wash utensils in detergent and hot water  Ensure sanitary disposal of liquid and solid wastes  Protect against rodents, insects  Maintain camp cleanliness!  Dispose of leftover food properly  Wash utensils in detergent and hot water  Ensure sanitary disposal of liquid and solid wastes  Protect against rodents, insects

13. SGTM 16 D: Personal Hygiene Slide 13  Prevention is better than cure!  Respect, protect the health of others  Treat the environment with respect  Understand and follow regulations  Recognize threats in operational areas  Maintain workplace safety  Prevention is better than cure!  Respect, protect the health of others  Treat the environment with respect  Understand and follow regulations  Recognize threats in operational areas  Maintain workplace safety