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This paper advances growing efforts to link One Health and WASH from a risk perspective, reviewing implications for humans and animals, as well as the environment, and expands this to address other interconnected challenges.
Awareness is increasing that exposure to animal faeces contributes to the global burden of diarrheal disease, as well as other zoonotic diseases. This recognition has prompted a re-evaluation of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions to address animal-related transmission pathways. However, current efforts focus primarily on animal faeces within household environments, neglecting other critical human-animal interactions that favour contamination such as animal handling.
After reviewing the efforts to link the two with a risk perspective, the authors discuss how a comprehensive One Health–WASH approach can move beyond risks to also enable opportunities to promote health, equity, climate resilience and other benefits. This framing offers possibilities to reduce disease transmission and enhance biosecurity, while addressing interconnected challenges facing low- and middle-income countries including food insecurity and agricultural livelihoods, animal health and welfare, and ecosystem degradation from excessive nutrients found in excreta.
Project / This transdisciplinary network aims to exchange knowledge and experiences and to develop concepts in applying a One Health approach to WASH.
Project / The Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative – SIANI – is a global network that supports and promotes dialogue and action around food systems.
Project / SEI's Green Agenda project is helping Moldova design an EU-aligned agricultural conditionality system on its path towards EU accession.
Feature / Key insights from a new SEI report on wastewater in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with author Daniel Ddiba.
Feature / Municipalities and cities from Bosnia and Herzegovina visited Sweden for a study tour on sustainable agriculture run by BiH SuTra project.
