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Table 3 Abundance of public safe water sources supplying persistent hot-spot and low-prevalence shehias in Unguja

From: Urogenital schistosomiasis transmission on Unguja Island, Zanzibar: characterisation of persistent hot-spots

 

Wells

Taps

Pumps

Other SWSsc

Total SWSs

n/N a

%b

n/N

%

n/N

%

n/N

%

n/N

%

Persistent hot-spot shehias

 Bandamaji

8/15

53.3

0/0

1/1

100

0/0

9/16

56.3

 Kinyasini

22/25

88.0

3/3

100

3/3

100

0/0

28/31

90.3

 Chaani

3/14

21.4

23/39

59.0

7/8

87.5

0/0

33/61

54.1

 Koani

40/46

87.0

7/10

70.0

1/1

100

0/0

48/57

84.2

 Kitope

10/13

76.9

2/44

4.6

0/1

0.00

0/0

14/58

24.1

Low-prevalence shehias

 Dole

6/12

50.0

10/39

25.6

1/1

100

1/2

50.0

18/54

33.3

 Mkwajuni

2/2

100.0

18/20

90.0

0/0

0/0

20/22

90.9

  1. Abbreviations: SWS safe water source
  2. a N = total number of public safe water sources; n = number of SWSs that constantly provided water
  3. b% = percentage of SWSs that constantly provided water
  4. cOther SWSs included a hose and a leaking electric ground water pump in Dole