Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH): a critical component for sustainable soil-transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis control

Suzy J Campbell; Georgia B Savage; Darren J Gray; Jo-An M Atkinson; Ricardo J Soares Magalhães; Susana V Nery; James S McCarthy; Yael Velleman; James H Wicken; Rebecca J Traub; Gail M Williams; Ross M Andrews; Archie C A Clements

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002651

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH): a critical component for sustainable soil-transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis control

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Apr 10;8(4):e2651. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002651. eCollection 2014 Apr.

Affiliations

¹ School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
² WaterAid Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
⁴ School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Clinical Tropical Medicine Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Department of Infectious Diseases, Royal Women's and Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
⁵ WaterAid, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia.
⁷ Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Communicable Disease Control / methods*
Health Policy*
Helminthiasis / prevention & control*
Humans
Hygiene*
Sanitation / methods*
Water Purification*
World Health Organization

Grants and funding

SJC is funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award and a University of Queensland Advantage Scholarship, ACAC is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellow (631619), RJSM is funded by a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Queensland (41795457), JSM is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow, and DJG is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow. This work is funded by an NHMRC Partnership project in collaboration with WaterAid Australia. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.