@article{27695,
  keywords = {Basic sanitation; Cleanliness; Community management; Faeco-oral disease; Shared sanitation; Urban slums},
  author = {Mara D},
  title = {Shared sanitation: to include or to exclude?},
  abstract = {<p>Just over 600 million people used shared sanitation in 2015, but this form of sanitation is not considered 'improved sanitation' or, in the current terminology, 'basic sanitation' by WHO/UNICEF, principally because they are typically unhygienic. Recent research has shown that neighbour-shared toilets perform much better than large communal toilets. The successful development of community-designed, built and managed sanitation-and-water blocks in very poor urban areas in India should be adapted and adopted throughout urban slums in developing countries, with a caretaker employed to keep the facilities clean. Such shared sanitation should be classified as 'basic', sometimes as 'safely-managed', sanitation, so contributing to the achievement of the sanitation target of the Sustainable Development Goals.</p>
},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene},
  volume = {110},
  pages = {265-7},
  issn = {1878-3503},
  doi = {10.1093/trstmh/trw029},
  language = {eng},
}