Rassul Nalá

TL;DR: A controlled, before-and-after (CBA) trial to estimate the health impacts of an urban sanitation intervention in informal neighbourhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, including an assessment of whether exposures and health outcomes vary by localised population density.

TL;DR: It is concluded that schistosomiasis and STHs are widely distributed in Mozambique and the need for a national helminth control program is confirmed.

TL;DR: A high prevalence of enteric infections is found, primarily among children without diarrhea, and weak associations between bacterial and protozoan infections and environmental risk factors including WASH are found.

TL;DR: Fecal contamination of compounds in low-income neighborhoods of urban Maputo, Mozambique is assessed using a set of MST assays that were validated with animal stool and latrine sludge from study compounds and associations with risk factors were generally weak and often differed in direction between different targets and sample types.

TL;DR: This research demonstrates that factors including latrine location and neighborhood violence are important determinants of safety perceptions and corresponding psychosocial stress, and suggests that “improved”, shared facilities can reduce stress when proper maintenance and management systems are in place.