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Where shared sanitation is the only immediate option: A research agenda for shared sanitation in densely populated low-income urban settings

Shared sanitation is not currently accepted within the international normative definitions of “basic” or “safely managed” sanitation. This study calls for additional research on effective interventions to reach quality standards and for developing rigorous measures applicable to global monitoring

Quantitative assessment of fecal contamination in multiple environmental sample types in urban communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh using SaniPath microbial approach

Rapid urbanization has led to a growing sanitation crisis and potential exposure to fecal contamination in the urban environment due to inadequate sanitation and poor fecal sludge management. This is a cross-sectional study to explore the magnitude of it in the environment in urban Dhaka

On whose terms: Utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka

This case study explains the stalled rollout of CWIS in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It analyzes policy pathways over the past 30 years through a combined territorial political economy and power perspective to understand their effects on equality

Strategies to connect low-income communities with the proposed sewerage network of the Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project, Bangladesh: A qualitative assessment of the perspectives of stakeholders

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

Changes in the menstrual hygiene management facilities and usage among Bangladeshi school girls and its effect on school absenteeism from 2014 to 2018

The lack of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) information and facilities in schools is a major contributor to adolescent girls' school absenteeism in low- and middle-income countries like Bangladesh. 

Possible drivers of the 2019 dengue outbreak in Bangladesh: The need for a robust community-level surveillance system

Bangladesh experienced its largest dengue virus (DENV) outbreak in 2019, with 101,354 patients admitted to hospital with eitherlaboratory-confirmed or clinical diagnosis. By contrast, the cumulative number of dengue patients admitted to hospit{:en}Bangladesh experienced its largest dengue virus (DEN