Redefining shared sanitation
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Redefining shared sanitation Thilde Rheinländer, Flemming Konradsen, Bernard Keraita, Patrick Apoya & Margaret Gyapong a Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. b Africa Sanitation Think Tank, 03 BP 7112, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso. c Dodowa Health Research Center and School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Correspondence to Thilde Rheinländer (email: [email protected]). (Submitted: 20 August 2014 – Revised version received: 9 February 2015 – Accepted: 16 February 2015 – Published online: 28 April 2015) As the Millennium Development Goals reach their deadline, it is clear that the world is not on track to achieve global sanitation targets. With sanitation trends, global developments and local contexts in mind, it is time to adopt a more flexible approach to achieving universal functional sanitation. By functional sanitation, we mean toilet facilities that protect human health by preventing contamination of the environment with human faecal waste.
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