News and Publications

Key publications from the MaaCiwara study:

Asamane EA, Quinn L, Watson SI, Lilford RJ, Hemming K, Sidibe C, Rego RT, Bensassi S, Diarra Y, Diop S, Gautam OP, Islam MS, Jackson L, Jolly K, Kayentao K, Koita O, Manjang B, Tebbs S, Gale N, Griffiths P, Cairncross S, Toure O, Manaseki-Holland S. Protocol for a parallel group, two-arm, superiority cluster randomised trial to evaluate a community-level complementary-food safety and hygiene and nutrition intervention in Mali: the MaaCiwara study (version 1.3; 10 November 2022). Trials. 2023 Jan 30;24(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06984-5. PMID: 36717923; PMCID: PMC9885702.

October 2022: Oral presentation: “Washing hands in a common bowl before eating is part of our tradition”: A qualitative study of communal handwashing practice in urban and rural Mali, West Africa” at the Water & Health global conference, The Water Institute, University of North Carolina, USA. See related studies for more details.
May 2022: Oral poster Presentation: Communal Handwashing without soap or changing the water as a source of contamination in households: Mixed-methods study from Mali including a randomised control trial (RCT) at the Forum for Global Challenges, The University of Birmingham. See related studies for more details.
May 2022: Preventing diarrhoea and growth delay through community-level complementary-food safety and hygiene and nutrition intervention in Mali: Formative research data for intervention adaptation at the Forum for Global Challenges, The University of Birmingham.