Community Led Total Sanitation to Reduce Household Diarrhea Morbidity in Nyando District

Abstract

Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative way to achieve communities free from open defecation. The purpose of the study was to show the association between CLTS and the Reduced Household Morbidity in the whole of Nyando District. The study was a comparative cross sectional study and was carried out in Nyando Sub County.Overall 47.3%of household members still defecated in the open the previous day (6.7% in intervention site compared to 74.6% in the control site, p<0.0001), and a two week prevalence of diarrhea was 17.4% (11.1% in the intervention site compared to 21.6% in control site).