Our study was just published in the Lancet, a great collaboration between a team from LSHTM*, WHO, UBC/IHME, and Emory. It’s a meta-analysis of interventions promoting handwashing with soap (HWWS) and their effectiveness in preventing acute respiratory infections (ARI) in low-income and middle-income countries (L&MICs). Our key result is that HWWS can reduce cases of… Continue reading New meta-analysis – handwashing promotion reduces respiratory infections by 17%