Understanding diarrhoeal diseases in response to climate variability and drought in Cape Town, South Africa: a mixed methods approach.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the ‘Ethikkommission Nordwest- und Zentralschweiz (EKNZ)’ in Switzerland (Req-2019-01050, November 11, 2019) and the University of Cape Town Faculty of Sciences Human Research Ethics Committee (703/2019, November 4, 2019). Approvals for health data and permission to speak with City of Cape Town government officials were granted by the Western Cape DoH (Western Cape_201911_010, November 19, 2019) and City of Cape Town government City Health Department (Ref: 24696, December 5, 2019), respectively. Written informed consent has been obtained from the interviewee(s) to publish this paper. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by University of Basel This research is part of the South African–Swiss Bilateral SARChI Chair in Global Environmental Health of Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research, the University of Cape Town, and Martin Röösli, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. This chair was formed in 2015 with funding sources from the South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF) SARChI (Grant number 94883), Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, University of Basel and the Swiss TPH."