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Elsevier Science Sa2024Environmental determinants of access to shared sanitation in informal settlements: a cross-sectional study in Abidjan and Nairobi
Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jürg Utzinger
Background Universal access to basic sanitation remains a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Efforts are underway to improve access to sanitation in informal settlements, often through shared facilities. However, access to ...
2023Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems
Tamar Kohn, Timothy R. Julian, Alex Robinson
To inform the development of global wastewater monitoring systems, we surveyed programmes in 43 countries. Most programmes monitored predominantly urban populations. In high-income countries (HICs), composite sampling at centralised treatment plants was mo ...
2023Optimization of Fecal Sludge Transport in Camp 18 of the Cox's Bazar Refugee Camp
Sanitation planning and management is a complex problem, especially in emergency contexts such as refugee camps. Camp 18 of the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp has over 27 000 inhabitants, who have access to 1931 latrines from which the sludge is treated in a cen ...
2022Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d’Ivoire
Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Martí Bosch Padrós, Jürg Utzinger
Unlike water and sanitation infrastructures or socio-economic indicators, landscape features are seldomly considered as predictors of diarrhoea. In contexts of rapid urbanisation and changes in the physical environment, urban planners and public health man ...
2022Assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene services in district health care facilities in rural area of Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Solomzi Makohliso
Access to sufficient water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services is a crucial requirement for patients during therapy and general well-being in the hospital. However, in low- and middle-income countries, these services are often inadequate, resulting in ...
SPRINGER2022Porous silicon-A versatile platform for mass-production of ultrasensitive SERS-active substrates
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy is one of the most prospective methods combining state-of-the-art nanomaterials and optical techniques for highly sensitive express-analysis and detection of organic and bioorganic objects in liquids an ...
ELSEVIER2021Urban living, mobility & health – the future of our cities
The Covid-19 pandemic brought to light the social inequalities and exposed frailties in the access to certain fundamental human rights, such as access to health and mobility. The type of housing, sanitation level, mobility, and urban structures play an ess ...
2021Groundwater recharge in the Bekaa : insights for enhanced water management
water scarcity, millions of people are subject to insufficient access to safe drinking water and sanitation services in Lebanon. Too often, water scarcity is interpreted as a natural phenomena or the result of technical failures, neglecting the fact that i ...
2021Water and sanitation hub in Mali. Reasons for an architecture seminar
What is the goal of a five-day seminar for the (architectural) design of a ‘water and sanitation hub’ in Mali? What does one want to achieve, or rather, what is the seminar meant to ‘disseminate’? To begin with, what is a ‘water and sanitation hub’? It is ...
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