title: Scaling up rural sanitation in India.
abstract: Clarissa Brocklehurst discusses the study by Patil and colleagues on a sanitation program in India and highlights the challenges ahead to improve the situation for millions of people who still have no option but to practice open defecation. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America; Sanitation and Water for All Secretariat, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Clarissa
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brocklehurst
mesh_terms: D003672:Defecation; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D012499:Sanitation / Q000379:methods*; D014038:Toilet Facilities