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    HUMAN AND ANIMAL FAECES MANAGEMENT IN SELECTED KEBELLES OF KILTE AWLAELO HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY SITE (HDSS): KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF HOUSEHOLDS
    (Mekelle University, 2023-11-25) Syum Guesh
    A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Kilte-Awlaelo Health and Demographic Survey Site from randomly selected 351 households. The study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices of residents regarding faeces management. A structured questionnaire was prepared, translated from English into Tigrigna, and pretested. Animal manure is mainly collected by adult women (74.7%, 260) and female children (58.9%, 207). Usually, animal faeces are collected by Spade (89.7%, 315) and bare hand picking (40.5%, 142). The 321 (91.5%) respondents indicated that the cattle faeces are stored either as store in a heap (42.5%, 149) or underground in a deep hole/compost (49.3%, 173) or in a biogas digester pit (2%, 7). Collected faeces is used as fertilizer (304, 86.6%) or dung cake making (291, 82.9%). Open defecation was exercised by 75.21% (264) whereas 12.54% (44) had pit latrines without slabs. Mothers of the household disposed of their child stools in garbage 107 (71.33%). Feco-oral practice with animal faeces in children was reported by 94 households. Respondents wash their hands after toilet (350, 99.72%), after changing the baby’s sanitary materials (341, 97.15%), before handling food/eating (350, 99.72%), after handling animal manure (344, 98.01%), after touching animals (342, 97.44%), and after handling raw food 348 (99.15%). Of the respondents, 342 (99.44%) and 309 (88.03%) agreed both human and animal faeces contain germs that could make people sick respectively. Drying animal faeces to dry before touching them (303, 86.32%), and making compost (309, 88.03) can reduce the spread of germs to people. The sources of water for the household's overall consumption were standpipe (90.03%, 316), and piped water into dwelling/yard/plot 24 (6.84%). About 197 (56.13%) used streams/rivers as sources of drinking. In conclusion, these findings emphasize the importance of public education on livestock waste management, and improved WaSH interventions; and call up on the importance of considering the management of animal excreta in the ongoing global WaSH program of 2030