Effects of Single and Integrated Water, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutrition Interventions on Child Soil-Transmitted Helminth and Giardia infections: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Kenya

Authors

Amy J. Pickering, Tufts University
Sammy M. Njenga, Kenya Medical Research Institute
Lauren Steinbaum, Stanford University
Jenna Swarthout, Tufts University
Audrie Lin, University of California - Berkeley
Benjamin F. Arnold, University of California - Berkeley
Christine P. Stewart, University of California, Davis
Holly N. Dentz, University of California, Davis
MaryAnne Mureithi, Innovations for Poverty Action
Benard Chieng, Kenya Medical Research Institute
Marlene Wolfe, Tufts University
Ryan Mahoney, Innovations for Poverty Action
Jimmy Kihara, Kenya Medical Research Institute
Kendra Byrd, University of California - Berkeley
Gouthami Rao, Innovations for Poverty Action
Theodora Meerkerk, Innovations for Poverty Action
Priscah Cheruiyot, Innovations for Poverty Action
Marina Papaiakovou, Smith College
Nils Pilotte, Smith College
Steven A. Williams, Smith CollegeFollow
John M. Colford Jr., University of California - Berkeley
Clair Null, Innovations for Poverty Action

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-26-2019

Publication Title

PLoS: Medicine

Abstract

Helminth and protozoan infections affect more than 1 billion children globally. Improving water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition could be more sustainable control strategies for parasite infections than mass drug administration, while providing other quality of life benefits.

Keywords

Sanitation, Ascaris, Giardia, Nutrition, Helminth infections, Protozoan infections, Parasitic diseases, Water resources

Volume

16

Issue

6

DOI

doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002841

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Rights

© 2019 Pickering et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Comments

Archived as published.

All replication scripts and data are available on Open Science Framework at the following link: https://osf.io/k2s47/

Recommended Citation

Pickering, Amy J.; Njenga, Sammy M.; Steinbaum, Lauren; Swarthout, Jenna; Lin, Audrie; Arnold, Benjamin F.; Stewart, Christine P.; Dentz, Holly N.; Mureithi, MaryAnne; Chieng, Benard; Wolfe, Marlene; Mahoney, Ryan; Kihara, Jimmy; Byrd, Kendra; Rao, Gouthami; Meerkerk, Theodora; Cheruiyot, Priscah; Papaiakovou, Marina; Pilotte, Nils; Williams, Steven A.; Colford, John M. Jr.; and Null, Clair, "Effects of Single and Integrated Water, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutrition Interventions on Child Soil-Transmitted Helminth and Giardia infections: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Kenya" (2019). Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/bio_facpubs/65