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Inadequate urban sanitation disproportionately impacts the social determinants of women's health in informal settlements or slums. The impacts on women's health include infectious and chronic illnesses, violence, food contamination and malnutrition, economic and educational attainment, and indignity. We used household survey data to report on self-rated health and sociodemographic, housing, and...

Abstract Governments often have contentious relationships with residents of urban informal settlements. Motivated by the desire for rents and dreams becoming next luxury destination, city governments worldwide forcefully evicted demolished communities in this pursuit. In such instances it would seem that state has broken social contract its most vulnerable citizens. How do citizens respond? We ...

Informal settlement has become one of the critical ways producing space and accessing affordable housing, particularly in context global South. Much established literature on shaping public focuses cities North, little is known about how spaces are being shaped more congested less formal This paper engages with challenge understanding informal settlements a focus exploring spatial structures in...

To slow down the community transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), virus that causes disease 2019 (COVID-19), context-appropriate measures are vital. The first COVID-19 cases in Kenya, Uganda and United Republic Tanzania were reported March 2020. All three countries have introduced to spread virus, such as encouraging washing and/or sanitizing hands frequen...

Informal settlements represent a challenging operational context for local government service providers due to precarious contextual conditions. Location choice and land procurement public infrastructure raise the complicated question: who has right occupy, control, use piece of in informal settlements? There is currently dearth intelligence on how identify well-located infrastructure, spatiall...

Literature from the developed world suggests that poor housing conditions and housing environments contribute to poor mental health outcomes, although research results are mixed. This study investigates the relationship between housing conditions and the socio-emotional health of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in South Africa. The results of the study are mainly inconclusive, although it...

BACKGROUND As a result of poor economic opportunities and an increasing shortage of affordable housing, much of the spatial growth in many of the world's fastest-growing cities is a result of the expansion of informal settlements where residents live without security of tenure and with limited access to basic infrastructure. Although inadequate water and sanitation facilities, crowding and othe...