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1. Safe distances between groundwater-based water wells and pit latrines at different hydrogeological conditions in the Ganges Atrai floodplains of Bangladesh

   Groundwater drawn from shallow tubewells in Bangladesh is often polluted by nearby pit latrines, which are commonly used toilets in rural and sub-urban areas of the country. To determine the minimum safe distance of a tubewell from a pit latrine...

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2. Estimating the Cost and Payment for Sanitation in the Informal Settlements of Kisumu, Kenya: A Cross Sectional Study

   This study, conducted by Sheillah Simiyu and colleagues, aimed at estimating the cost of sanitation, and investigating the social and economic dynamics within Kisumu’s informal...

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3. A long way to go – Estimates of combined water, sanitation and hygiene coverage for 25 sub-Saharan African countries

   Using the most recent available Demographic Household Survey (DHS) or Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data for 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper analyses and estimates national and regional...

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4. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools: results from a process evaluation of the National Sanitation Campaign in Tanzania

   This study, conducted by Prince Antwi-Agyei and colleagues, assesses the intermediate outcomes of the Tanzania National Sanitation Campaign (NSC) for schools.

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5. Trial of a Novel Intervention to Improve Multiple Food Hygiene Behaviors in Nepal

   This publication, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, shows the results of a trial of an intervention to improve five food hygiene behaviors among mothers of young children in rural Nepal. The research was...

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6. Taking Stock: Incompetent at incontinence – why are we ignoring the needs of incontinence sufferers?

   How would you cope if you had no control over how you urinated or defecated and regularly or constantly leaked urine or faeces? This new study, published in Waterlines, explores these issues.

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7. Faecal contamination of commuters’ hands in main vehicle stations in Dhaka city, Bangladesh

   This study, conducted at icddr,b by Islam et al (2016) explored whether faecal-oral carriage via...

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8. Reflections from Malawi’s National Water Conference

   In March, Tracy Morse (Malawi National Coordinator) and Save Kondwani (Research Fellow) attended the National Water Conference in Malawi. Here, Tracy Morse provides an overview of the event.

   In Malawi, our SHARE...

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9. Integrating WASH and Food Hygiene

   This research brief summarises work being conducted by MEIRU and the ...

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10. Researcher of the Month: Kenneth Makata

    For our second Researcher of the Month, we interviewed Kenneth Makata, Research Coordinator at MITU in Mwanza, Tanzania, working on the...

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