Sanitation and Hygiene-Specific Risk Factors for Moderate-to-Severe Diarrhea in Young Children in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, 2007-2011: Case-Control Study.
Kelly K BakerCiara E O'ReillyMyron M LevineKaren L KotloffJames P NataroTracy L AyersTamer H FaragDilruba NasrinWilliam C BlackwelderYukun WuPedro L AlonsoRobert F BreimanRichard OmoreAbu S G FaruqueSumon Kumar DasShahnawaz AhmedDebasish SahaSamba O SowDipika SurAnita K M ZaidiFahreen QuadriEric D MintzPublished in: PLoS medicine (2016)
This study suggests that sharing a sanitation facility with just one to two other households can increase the risk of MSD in young children, compared to using a private facility. Interventions aimed at increasing access to private household sanitation facilities may reduce the burden of MSD in children. These findings support the current World Health Organization/ United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) system that categorizes shared sanitation as unimproved.