Formative research to scale up a handwashing with soap and water treatment intervention for household members of diarrhea patients in health facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh (CHoBI7 program)

• Main Authors: Elizabeth D. Thomas (Author), Fatema Zohura (Author), M. Tasdik Hasan (Author), Md. Sohel Rana (Author), Alana Teman (Author), Tahmina Parvin (Author), Jahed Masud (Author), Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian (Author), Md. Khobair Hossain (Author), Maynul Hasan (Author), Sanya Tahmina (Author), Farzana Munmun (Author), Md. Abul Hashem Khan (Author), Shirajum Monira (Author), David A. Sack (Author), Elli Leontsini (Author), Peter J. Winch (Author), Munirul Alam (Author), Christine Marie George (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background During the time a diarrhea patient presents at a health facility, the household members of the patient are at higher risk of developing diarrheal diseases (> 100 times for cholera) than the general population. The Cholera-Hospital-based-Intervention-for-7-Days (CHoBI7) is a he...