Background Improved sanitation has been shown to have great impacts on people's health
and economy. However, the progress of achieving the Millennium Development Goals …

The challenge of achieving global sanitation targets is that it requires application of both
technology that is appropriate and a supporting organizational structure. The interactions …

During the last decades of the twentieth century, alternative solutions for provision of
sanitation were put into practice in Brazil. These unconventional programmes, which …

Although safe sanitation and hygiene is critical for improving family health, rural
communities in Sub Saharan Africa have shown little inclination to change their traditional …

Few rural sanitation programs have documented large increases in sanitation coverage or
have assessed if interventions equitably increase sanitation coverage for vulnerable groups …

The importance of sanitation for human health and development is undisputed. Sanitation is
now high on the international development agenda and has become a salient issue in most …

Lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene causes 2.2
million deaths each year in the developing world, mostly children. Reduction in poverty and …

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This chapter draws on experiences of three large sanitation programmes in Malawi,
Tanzania, and Zambia, and discusses eight aspects to consider when integrating …

Forty percent of the world's population (2.5 billion) lives without adequate sanitation, such as
a latrine at home (WHO, 2012). Because of poor sanitation, each year millions of people die …