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Communal Toilets in Urban Poverty

Dreaming of toilets: using photovoice to explore knowledge, attitudes and practices around water-health linkages in rural Kenya.

As part of a knowledge, attitudes, practices and empowerment (KAPE) project implemented by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) in the Lake Victoria Basin, this paper reports findings from a photovoice study with women in Usoma, a lakeshore community in Western Kenya. Drawing on ecosocial and political ecology theory, findings reveal that access ...

Fluid fragmentation from hospital toilets

One mode of transmission for C. difficile, as well as other pathogens, which has received little attention is the potential air contamination by pathogen-bearing droplets emanating from toilets. So far, modern mitigation strategies focused on cleaning hospital surfaces with products such as bleach, ignoring air contamination. Though toilets have been in use for over a century, little is known a...

[Dry toilets: a means of alternative sanitation].

OBJECTIVE Evaluating dry toilet use in a rural area of Colombia. METHOD Fifteen families were selected by convenience sampling from the rural area of a municipality in the Cundinamarca department in Colombia. A dry (composting) toilet was installed in one house and used for demonstration purposes over a five-month period. An ex-post evaluation was made concerning technical and economic matter...

Child undernutrition, tropical enteropathy, toilets, and handwashing.

Of the 555 million preschool children in developing countries, 32% are stunted and 20% are underweight. Child underweight or stunting causes about 20% of all mortality of children younger than 5 years of age and leads to long-term cognitive defi cits, poorer performance in school and fewer years of completed schooling, and lower adult economic productivity. Child underweight state or stunting m...