Assessing Water Filtration and Safe Storage in Households with Young Children of HIV-Positive Mothers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial in Zambia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Peletz, Rachel ^a   Simunyama, Martin ^b   Sarenje, Kelvin ^b   Baisley, Kathy ^a   Filteau, Suzanne ^a   Kelly, Paul ^b,c   Clasen, Thomas ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECAL COLIFORM; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; FILTER; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSEHOLD WATER TREATMENT AND SAFE STORAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JERRY CAN; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; OPEN STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STORAGE; WATER FILTER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; ZAMBIA;

BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DIARRHEA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; PREVALENCE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84867647990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046548     Document Type: Article

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