Omulo, Sylvia Lofgren, Eric T. Lockwood, Svetlana Thumbi, Samuel M. Bigogo, Godfrey Ouma, Alice Verani, Jennifer R. Juma, Bonventure Njenga, M. Kariuki Kariuki, Samuel
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
BackgroundThe relationship between antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance varies with cultural, socio-economic, and environmental factors. We examined these relationships in Kibera, an informal settlement in Nairobi—Kenya, characterized by high population density, high burden of respiratory disease and diarrhea.MethodsTwo-hundred households we...
Parvez, Sarker Masud Rahman, Musarrat Jabeen Azad, Rashidul Rahman, Mahbubur Unicomb, Leanne Ashraf, Sania Mondol, Momenul Haque Jahan, Farjana Winch, Peter J. Luby, Stephen P.
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International Journal for Equity in Health
BackgroundSupply driven programs that are not closely connected to community demand and demand-driven programs that fail to ensure supply both risk worsening inequity. Understanding patterns of uptake of behaviors among the poorest under ideal experimental conditions, such as those of an efficacy trial, can help identify strategies that could be st...
Potgieter, N. Banda, N. T. Becker, P. J. Traore-Hoffman, A. N.
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BMC Family Practice
BackgroundSouth Africa has unique and diverse social and economic factors that have an impact on the provision of basic water, sanitation, hygiene and waste management infrastructure and practices at health care facilities in ensuring patient safety and prevent the spread of diseases.MethodsThe aim of this study was to evaluate water, sanitation an...
Vijayan, Bevin Ramanathan, Mala
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Journal of biosocial science
Diarrhoeal disease is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in children and is usually measured at individual level. Shared household attributes, such as improved water supply and sanitation, expose those living in the same household to these same risk factors for diarrhoea. The occurrence of diarrhoea in two or more children in the sa...
Santos Silva, Vitória Batista Garcia Junior, Wagner Roberto Ramos Araújo, Clayton Vinicius Pegoraro de Kölling, Gabrielle Jacobi
This article analyzes some points related to the economic incentive mechanisms of the new regulatory framework of basic sanitation in Brazil, which was approved in the first half of 2019. Besides that, this work presents the real situation of millions of Brazilians who have their social rights mitigated by the failures of the current economic regul...
Crocker, Jonny Fuente, David Bartram, Jamie
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International journal of hygiene and environmental health
We conducted cost effectiveness analyses of four different CLTS interventions implemented in Ethiopia and Ghana. In each country, a pilot approach in which additional local actors were trained in CLTS facilitation was compared to the conventional approach. Data were collected using bottom-up costing, household surveys, and observations. We assessed...
Kamranvand, F. Davey, C.J. Williams, L. Parker, A. Jiang, Y. Tyrrel, S. McAdam, E.J.
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Separation and Purification Technology
In this study, the pretreatment of concentrated blackwater using ultrafiltration (UF) was shown to improve the permeability, selectivity and robustness of membrane distillation (MD) for application to wastewater treatment. Concentrated blackwater comprises urine and faeces, with minimal flushwater added. The faecal contribution increased the solubl...
Kithiia, Justus Majambo, Gamoyo
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Cities (London, England)
Amidst climate change, coastal cities in Africa will face serious water and sanitation problems owing to the predicted flooding of coastal land and saltwater intrusion into freshwater aquifers. For cities such as Mombasa, the problems will be further compounded by high prevalence of informal economies and settlements superimposed on western style g...
Seidu, Abdul-Aziz Agbaglo, Ebenezer Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku Dadzie, Louis Kobina Bukari, Ishmael Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena Yaya, Sanni
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundProper sanitation has been one of the topmost priorities on the global public health agenda. In the past few decades, sanitation programs targeting households have often paid little attention to the disposal of children’s stools. We assessed the individual and contextual factors associated with disposal of children’s faeces in Papua New G...
Sudrajat, Agus Sudarno, Luqman, Yanuar
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E3S Web of Conferences
In accordance with the 6’th Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's), that ensurin availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and with the launch of the 100-0-100 movement by Indonesian Government, which is a program to achieve the 100% accesss for water, 0% for slums, and 100% accesss to proper sanitation, Cilacap governm...
