01201nas a2200133   4500000000100000008004100001653010800042100001100150245004900161300001000210490000800220520082500228022001401053       2016                            d10aBasic sanitation; Cleanliness; Community management; Faeco-oral disease; Shared sanitation; Urban slums1 aMara D00aShared sanitation: to include or to exclude?  a265-70 v1103 a<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>
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