A new study from rural Bangladesh -- the most densely populated rural area in the world -- suggests that financial subsidies for the poorest households in a village can improve access to sanitation for everyone in that village. These findings add to a growing list of evidence highlighting price as a primary barrier to the adoption of health products, especially in the developing world where about one billion people defecate openly and another 1.5 billion live without hygienic latrines.
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