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Transplacental transmission: A rare case of Ebola virus transmission
Infectious Disease Reports, 2018 During the mid-transmission period of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, who was a petty trader in a health facility in Freetown, noticing no fetal movement for the past 3 days, reported to a health ...
Lawrence Okoror +4 more
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Equity analysis of intermittent water supply systems by means of EPA-SWMM
Water Supply, 2023 Intermittent water supply (IWS) is a frequent operation approach in developing countries. A number of factors contribute to IWS, such as leakage and water shortage, leading to inequitable water distribution. A way to reduce the inequity in IWS systems is
Paulo A. S. B. Ceita +4 more
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Tropical medicine & international health, 2018 Safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are protective against diarrhoeal disease; a leading cause of child mortality. The main objective was an updated assessment of the impact of unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) on childhood diarrhoeal ...
J. Wolf +10 more
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Citywide Inclusive Sanitation—Business as Unusual: Shifting the Paradigm by Shifting Minds
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 As the world urbanizes, the challenges of urban sanitation increase, with urban population growth dramatically outpacing gains in sanitation access. Total global costs of inadequate sanitation are estimated at USD 260 billion annually, and reaching the ...
M. Gambrill +2 more
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Ending open defecation in rural Tanzania: which factors facilitate latrine adoption? [PDF]
, 2014 Diarrheal diseases account for 7% of deaths in children under five years of age in Tanzania. Improving sanitation is an essential step towards reducing these deaths.
Graham, Jay, Sara, Stephen
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BMC Medicine, 2019 BackgroundThree large new trials of unprecedented scale and cost, which included novel factorial designs, have found no effect of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions on childhood stunting, and only mixed effects on childhood diarrhea.
O. Cumming +21 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 The urban population will rise to 6.7 billion by 2050. The United Nations has committed to provide everyone with safely managed sanitation, but there is limited understanding of the scale of the challenge.
A. Peal +10 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Many schools in low-income countries have inadequate access to water facilities, sanitation and hygiene promotion. A systematic review of literature was carried out that aimed to identify and analyse the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene ...
C. McMichael
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Monitoring sanitation and hygiene in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development: A review through the lens of human rights [PDF]
, 2016 International monitoring of drinking water and sanitation has been jointly carried out by WHO and UNICEF through their Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP). With the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era in 2015, the JMP has proposed a post-2015
Flores Baquero, Óscar +3 more
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