James B. Tidwell, Jenala Chipungu, Ian Ross, Prince Antwi-Agyei et al.
Shared sanitation is not currently accepted within the international normative definitions of "basic" or "safely managed" sanitation. We argue that pro-poor government strategies and investment plans must include high-quality shared sanitation as an intermediate step in some densely populated urban ...
Mahbub‐Ul Alam, Fazle Sharior, Dewan Muhammad Shoaib, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Waste and sanitation workers provide essential services to society. In most low-and middle-income countries, they are often mistreated and lack access to necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) and hygiene facilities that ensure occupational safety in workplaces. COVID-19 has also imposed seri...
Fazle Sharior, Mahbub‐Ul Alam, Mariam Zaqout, Sally Cawood et al.
In Bangladesh, cities produce huge volumes of solid waste, sewage, and greywater with limited resources to manage it. Waste and sanitation workers, key players in managing waste, are continuously exposed to different health hazards in their work due to lack of occupational safety and basic protectio...
Mahbub‐Ul Alam, Fazle Sharior, Sharika Ferdous, Atik Ahsan et al.
In Bangladesh, approximately 31% of urban residents are living without safely managed sanitation, the majority of whom are slum residents. To improve the situation, Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is implementing the Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project (DSIP), mostly funded by the...
Joanna Esteves Mills, Ann Thomas, Nadia Abdalla, Rola Al-Emam et al.
Fouzia Akter, Neiva Banze, Igor Capitine, Kondwani Chidziwisano et al.
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 measures sanitation progress by type of toilet service. Improving people’s subjective sanitation experiences is also important but rarely rigorously measured. The Sanitation-related Quality of Life index (SanQoL-5) combines answers to five simple questions (...
Dewan Muhammad Shoaib, Tanvir Ahmed, Kazy Farhat Tabassum, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Waste and sanitation workers in South-Asian countries are vulnerable to injuries and diseases, including COVID-19. In Bangladesh, an intervention was implemented during COVID-19 to lower these workers' occupational health risks through training and PPE distribution. We assessed how the intervention ...
Mahbub‐Ul Alam, Fazle Sharior, Sharika Ferdous, Atik Ahsan et al.
Globally, 2.2 billion urban residents are living without safely-managed sanitation, the majority of whom are slum residents. To improve the situation, Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is implementing the Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project (DSIP), mostly funded by the World Bank. T...
Atik Ahsan, Rownak Jahan Archie, James B. Tidwell
Amid this Covid-19 pandemic, it is crucial to have the best possible estimation for essential quarantine days to mitigate the risk of Coronavirus spread. In this article, we aim to better approximate the mandatory quarantine days based on the available published literature. Our review of scientific ...