Journal article
Risk factors for infection with soil-transmitted helminths during an integrated community level water, sanitation, and hygiene and deworming intervention in Timor-Leste
S Vaz Nery, NE Clarke, A Richardson, R Traub, JS McCarthy, DJ Gray, AJ Vallely, GM Williams, RM Andrews, SJ Campbell, ACA Clements
International Journal for Parasitology | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2019
Abstract
Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions have been advocated as important complements to deworming programs to improve soil-transmitted helminth control. Evidence for the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene on soil-transmitted helminth infections is mixed, and based mainly on cross-sectional studies. In this study, we assessed associations between individual- and household-level water, sanitation and hygiene variables and soil-transmitted helminth infections, using data collected during the 2 year follow-up study period of the WASH for WORMS randomised controlled trial in Timor-Leste. Data were collected across four surveys, conducted at 6 monthly intervals in 23 communities. We analy..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; Australia) Partnership project [grant number 1013713] with WaterAid Australia. NEC is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, ACAC and AJV are supported by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowships, JSM is an Australian NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and DJG is an Australian NHMRC Career Development Fellow. The authors would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Health of Timor-Leste for operational support; Salvador Amaral and the WASH for WORMS field staff, and data clerks for data collection and data entry; WaterAid's and their partner NGOs' field staff for implementation of the WASH intervention; Stacey Llewellyn for laboratory diagnosis; and all of the communities for participating in the trial.