Jill Luoto, Nusrat Najnin, Minhaj Mahmud, Jeff Albert et al.
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that household point-of-use (POU) water treatment products can reduce the enormous burden of water-borne illness. Nevertheless, adoption among the global poor is very low, and little evidence exists on why. METHODS: We gave 600 households in poor communities in Dhaka, B...
Jill Luoto, Minhaj Mahmud, Jeff Albert, Stephen P. Luby et al.
Low-cost point-of-use (POU) safe water products have the potential to reduce waterborne illness, but adoption by the global poor remains low. We performed an eight-month randomized trial of four low-cost household water treatment products in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Intervention households (n = 600) recei...
Jill Luoto, David I. Levine, Jeff Albert, Stephen P. Luby
Nusrat Najnin, Shaila Arman, Jaynal Abedin, Leanne Unicomb et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess sustained siphon filter usage among a low-income population in Bangladesh and study relevant motivators and barriers. METHODS: After a randomised control trial in Bangladesh during 2009, 191 households received a siphon water filter along with educational messages. Researchers r...