Faecal contamination of the environment and child health: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

FGB Goddard, AJ Pickering, A Ercumen… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Exposure to faecal contamination is believed to be associated with child
diarrhoea and possibly stunting; however, few studies have explicitly measured the …

The applications of implementation science in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) research and practice

SS Haque, MC Freeman - Environmental health perspectives, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Delivery of high quality, at-scale, and sustained services is a major challenge
in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector, made more challenging by a dearth of …

Estimating safely managed sanitation in urban areas; lessons learned from a global implementation of excreta-flow diagrams

A Peal, B Evans, S Ahilan, R Ban, I Blackett… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The urban population will rise to 6.7 billion by 2050. The United Nations has committed to
provide everyone with safely managed sanitation, but there is limited understanding of the …

[HTML][HTML] Early childhood cognitive development is affected by interactions among illness, diet, enteropathogens and the home environment: findings from the MAL-ED …

Mal-Ed Network Investigators - BMJ Global Health, 2018 - gh.bmj.com
Background Millions of children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at
risk of not reaching their full cognitive potential. Malnutrition and enteric infections in early …

Effects of an urban sanitation intervention on childhood enteric infection and diarrhea in Maputo, Mozambique: a controlled before-and-after trial

J Knee, T Sumner, Z Adriano, C Anderson, F Bush… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
We conducted a controlled before-and-after trial to evaluate the impact of an onsite urban
sanitation intervention on the prevalence of enteric infection, soil transmitted helminth re …

The utility of Escherichia coli as a contamination indicator for rural drinking water: Evidence from whole genome sequencing

S Nowicki, ZR Delaurent, EP de Villiers, G Githinji… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Across the water sector, Escherichia coli is the preferred microbial water quality indicator
and current guidance upholds that it indicates recent faecal contamination. This has been …

Fecal indicator bacteria along multiple environmental exposure pathways (water, food, and soil) and intestinal parasites among children in the rural northwest Ethiopia

Z Gizaw, AW Yalew, BD Bitew, J Lee, M Bisesi - BMC gastroenterology, 2022 - Springer
Background Children in low-resource settings are exposed to multiple risk factors for
enteropathogens. However, the probability of exposures may be different across exposure …

[HTML][HTML] Out of sight, out of mind: Understanding the sanitation crisis in global South cities

VA Beard, D Satterthwaite, D Mitlin, J Du - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global monitoring efforts do not provide a clear picture of the challenge of managing human
waste at the city scale. Where cities do not provide universal access to publicly managed …

Detection and quantification of enteric pathogens in aerosols near open wastewater canals in cities with poor sanitation

O Ginn, L Rocha-Melogno, A Bivins… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Urban sanitation infrastructure is inadequate in many low-income countries, leading to the
presence of highly concentrated, uncontained fecal waste streams in densely populated …

[HTML][HTML] A planetary health model for reducing exposure to faecal contamination in urban informal settlements: Baseline findings from Makassar, Indonesia

MA French, SF Barker, RR Taruc, A Ansariadi… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The intense interactions between people, animals and environmental systems
in urban informal settlements compromise human and environmental health. Inadequate …