The intervention is making good progress, but in other areas inadequate drainage and unpaved roads persist, where standing water and mud create reservoirs for environmentally persistent pathogens. These increase the risk of diseases, like leptospirosis, especially during Salvador’s rainy season.

Great morning spent with CONDER officials and collaborators at UFBA’s Institute of Collective Health, reviewing progress on the intervention we're evaluating for our project: ‘Simplified sewerage to interrupt multiple transmission pathways of environmental and zoonotic diseases in urban communities’

Excellent presentation today by @elliedelight.bsky.social to researchers at the Institute of Collective Health (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) on her PhD studying vulnerability to environmentally persistent zoonoses ('ZAPs' in Portuguese!) during flooding events.

Eco-epi data collection for our RGHI study with @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social in Salvador has begun!

We're collecting soil, water, animal & human samples to study how sanitation in low-income urban areas impacts zoonotic pathogen transmission

Read more here: tinyurl.com/3kr73neb @lshtm.bsky.social