💡Takeaway: both design and price matter! Manufacturers should continue to iterate on HWF designs with emphasis on reducing costs.

🙌 Thanks to co-authors Katayi Mwila-Kazimbaya, Mwamba Mwenge, Elisabeth Tadiri, Jenala Chipungu, @rdreibe.bsky.social

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🧴 Without considering cost, people preferred HWFs that looked like traditional sinks.

💸 Once price was revealed, preferences shifted towards more affordable designs.

🔍We identified 9 key attributes that matter most to people when choosing a handwashing facility (HWF):
✨ Appearance
⚡ Convenience
🖐 Ease of use
🧼 Hygienic use
🛠 Maintenance
💰 Price
💧 Water disposal
🚿 Water management
🔒 Vulnerability to theft/breakage

🚰 Our paper is out in PLOS Water!

“Understanding end-user preferences for hand hygiene enabling technologies: A mixed-methods study in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia”

📄 Read here:
journals.plos.org/water/articl...

Results 👇

👋 Hi Bluesky! Our scoping review of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools is now published in BMJ Global Health

Read on if you’re interested in
🧼 #WASH
🤸‍♀️ #AdolescentHealth
🔍 #EvidenceSynthesis
🎨 #dataviz ??

@lshtm-ehg.bsky.social

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Thank you for all of your support! 🙏🏻

@sarahbick.bsky.social @rdreibe.bsky.social @omotolaodutola.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social

🚀 Today, we launched the Behaviour Change Lab (BC Lab) trial—a factorial RCT on hand hygiene in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia.

⭐️ Huge thanks to my amazing colleagues at Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia for their contributions!

🔬Excited for the insights ahead! #GlobalHealth #HandHygiene