Duijster, D., Monse, B., Dimaisip-Nabuab, J., Djuharnoko, P., Heinrich-Weltzien, R., Hobdell, M., Kromeyer-Hauschild, K., Kunthearith, Y., Mijares-Majini, M.C., Siegmund, N., Soukhanouvong, P., Benzian, H. (2017) ‘Fit for school’ – a school-based water, sanitation and hygiene programme to improve child health: Results from a longitudinal study in Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR

The Fit for School (FIT) programme integrates school health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene interventions, which are implemented by the Ministries of Education in four Southeast Asian countries. This paper describes the findings of a Health Outcome Study, which aimed to assess the two-year effect of the FIT programme on the parasitological, weight, and oral health status of children attending schools implementing the programme in […]

USAID (2018) Toward a Hygienic Environment for Infants and Young Children: A Review of the Literature

This review synthesizes the latest understanding of key pathways of fecal microbes, in particular, enteric pathogens and soil-transmitted helminths (STHs), ingestion by Infants and young children (IYC), and the link to diarrhea, environmental enteric dysfunction (EED), and poor nutrition and development outcomes. The review is based on a thorough search of the scientific and gray literature on WASH, child undernutrition, and health, including snowball sampling […]

WHO (2015) Water sanitation and hygiene for accelerating and sustaining progress on neglected tropical diseases: A global strategy 2015-2020 (in English, French and Spanish)

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are critical in the prevention and care for all of the 17 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) scheduled for intensified control or elimination by 2020. Provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene is one of the five key interventions within the global NTD roadmap. Yet to date, the WASH component of the strategy has received little attention and the potential to link […]

PRG (2015) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) helminth tests (Ascaris, Trichuris and Taenia)

Various authors (2016) Equipment and health and safety modifications required for developing the capacity to support grantees field-testing in Durban, SA Various documents on results from research grant

This library entry contains background documents for a grant that Chris Buckley is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Further information is also available on the SuSanA discussion forum, see link below. Short description of the project: The grant was awarded to the Pollution Research Group (PRG) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in order to increase the capacity of the PRG to […]

Clasen, T. et al. (2015) Assessing the effectiveness of improved sanitation on diarrhoea and helminth infection: A cluster-randomized, controlled field trial In Orissa, India Various documents on results from research grant

Various authors (2015) 3rd International Faecal Sludge Management Conference 2015 Hanoi, Vietnam

The Third International Faecal Sludge Management Conference was held in Hanoi from the 18th to the 21st of January 2015. More than 700 delegates from around the world shared ideas and discussed challenges and opportunities in on-site sanitation. Below you find the list of papers in chronological order by day (Day 1-3) and room (room 1-3 ). In order to search by author, simply press "Ctrl+F" […]

Jiménez Cisneros, B. (2014) Software to identify and quantify pathogenic helminth eggs Various documents on results from research grant

Foutch, G. L. (2015) Simple auger-die assembly that treats fecal wastes (Phase 1) and Viscous heating for helminth deactivation in fecal sludge (Phase 2) Various documents on results from research grant

Ziegelbauer, K., Speich, B., Mäusezahl, D., Bos, R., Keiser, J., Utzinger, J. (2012) Effect of Sanitation on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Jimenez-Cisneros, B. E. (2007) Helminth ova control in wastewater and sludge for agricultural reuse

Moodley, P., Archer, A., Hawksworth, D. (2008) Standard Methods for the Recovery and Enumeration of Helminth Ova in Wastewater, Sludge, Compost and Urine-Diversion Waste in South Africa