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.
BT - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27198209?dopt=Abstract
DO - 10.1093/trstmh/trw029 IS - 5 J2 - Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. LA - eng N2 -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.
PY - 2016 SP - 265 EP - 7 T2 - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene TI - Shared sanitation: to include or to exclude? VL - 110 SN - 1878-3503 ER -