TY - RPRT KW - WASH KW - Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STHs) KW - Prevention KW - India AU - Cumming O AU - Ensink J AU - Freeman MC AU - Jenkins MW AB -

A third of the 2.5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1.1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1.5 million who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of a rural sanitation intervention, within the context of the Government of India’s Total Sanitation Campaign, to prevent diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection and child malnutrition.

BT - Impact Evaluation Report 38 CY - New Delhi LA - eng N2 -

A third of the 2.5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1.1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1.5 million who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of a rural sanitation intervention, within the context of the Government of India’s Total Sanitation Campaign, to prevent diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection and child malnutrition.

PB - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) PP - New Delhi PY - 2016 T2 - Impact Evaluation Report 38 TI - Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection and malnutrition in India. UR - http://www.3ieimpact.org/media/filer_public/2016/08/17/ie38-rural-sanitation-programme.pdf ER -