Facilitating hand hygiene in displacement camps during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative assessment of a novel handwashing stand and hygiene promotion package

ABSTRACT:

Background

Handwashing with soap is critical for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and outbreak related diseases, including interrupting the transmission of COVID-19. People living in large displacement settings are particularly vulnerable to such outbreaks, however, practicing handwashing is typically challenging in these contexts.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative assessment of the implementation of a combined intervention to facilitate handwashing behaviour in displacement camps and in surrounding communities in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention comprised a ‘hardware’ infrastructural component (provision of the Oxfam Handwashing Station) and a ‘software’ hygiene promotion package (Mum’s Magic H

SUBMITTER: White S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9756724 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature