Background Ethiopia has been implementing a community health extension program (HEP)
since 2003. We aimed to assess the successes and challenges of the HEP over time, and …

Background Within the past two decades, Ethiopia has achieved one of the fastest
reductions of open defecation worldwide. This change can be attributed to the …

Background Lack of sanitation facilities is a serious health risk and obliges people to
practice open defecation, thereby increasing the risk of disease transmission. The aim of this …

Background This study assessed characteristics of sanitation and hygiene facilities in a slum
community in Kampala, Uganda. Methods We conducted a household-based cross …

Given the increasing frequency and duration of humanitarian emergencies worldwide, there
is a need to identify a greater range of effective and contextually appropriate water …

Latrines are the most basic form of improved sanitation and are a common public health
intervention. Understanding motivations for building and using latrines can help develop …

Many sanitation interventions suffer from poor sustainability. Failure to maintain or replace
toilet facilities risks exposing communities to environmental pathogens, yet little is known …

Household water treatment can reduce diarrheal morbidity and mortality in developing
countries, but adoption remains low and supply is often unreliable. To test effects of …

This study developed and validated a model for predicting the probability that communities
in Amhara Region, Ethiopia, have low sanitation coverage, based on environmental and …

An estimated 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation which has devastating
consequences for human health and the environment. Understanding what constitute …