Latrines May Not Improve Health of Poor Children [NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 10/28/1412:00 PM

Because of the well-known dangers of open defecation — especially for children’s health — bringing millions of latrines to the poor has long been a goal of public health experts.

But now a major study in India has stunned advocates of latrine building by showing that it may do little good.

Researchers supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine picked 100 villages in the Odisha district of India with a total of 51,000 inhabitants and built large numbers of latrines in half of them. They focused on reaching households with young children.

[For more of this story, written by Donal G. McNeil Jr., go to http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10...f-poor-children.html]

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