Environmental determinants of access to shared sanitation in informal settlements: a cross-sectional study in Abidjan and Nairobi.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateIn Kenya, this research obtained ethical clearance from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI/RES/7/3/1) and authority to conduct research from the National Commission for Science, Technology & Innovation (NACOSTI/P/21/10921). In Côte d’Ivoire, we obtained clearance from the National Health and Life Sciences Ethics Committee (Comité National d’Éthique des Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé, ref. n° 005-22/MSHPCMU/CNESVS-km). In Switzerland, we obtained ethical clearance from the principal investigator’s host institution, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (decision n° 068-2020). Before any data collection, all study subjects were informed about the study’s goals, methods, and data protection measures, and signed an inform consent form when they agreed to participate. Consent for publicationAll study participants signed an inform consent form before any data collection, which included consent for publication of anonymized data. Competing interestsJürg Utzinger is the deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. He was not involved in the peer-review or handling of the manuscript. The authors have no other competing interests to disclose. Competing interests Jürg Utzinger is the deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. He was not involved in the peer-review or handling of the manuscript. The authors have no other competing interests to disclose."

"Funding Open access funding provided by EPFL Lausanne. This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) under grant no. CRSII5_183577."