Background Unsafe management of human faecal waste represents a major risk for public
health, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. Efforts to improve sanitation …

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 …

Although access to sanitation has been recognized as a fundamental human right, 3.6
billion people do not enjoy this right globally. In this group, the practice of unhealthy …

An estimated 56% of households in rural India defecated in the open in 2015, making India
the most significant contributor to the global sanitation burden. This cross-sectional study …

Background: As of the year 2014, about 2.5 billion people globally lacked access to
improved sanitation. The situation is even worse in the sub-Saharan African countries …

Background: Poor latrine conditions, structure, and design may deter latrine use and
provoke reversion to open defecation (OD). Statistics show that only 18% of the households …

This article examines the social valuation of the external environment used for open
defecation (OD). For this, we distinguish between the necessity-driven OD hypothesis that …

Ethiopia achieved the fastest reduction in open defaecation worldwide over the two past
decades. However, it was through the use of predominantly non-durable, unhygienic …

In the context of monitoring progress towards SDG target 6.2, a household is counted to
have access to sanitation if it uses at least basic sanitation services. Several approaches …

Background Across developing countries poor sanitation is associated with disease often
found widespread in rural populations. Objectives This objective of this study was to conduct …