Sian White:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2402-6080
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Jessica F. Petz: Role: Formal analysisRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
Kifle Desta: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Project administration
Torben Holm Larsen: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: ResourcesRole:
Writing – review & editing
Jerome T. Galea: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
6
May
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0216237
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London,
United Kingdom
[2
]
Independent Consultant, Tigray, Ethiopia
[3
]
Real Relief ApS, Kolding, Denmark
University of South Florida, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following
competing interests: Sian White, Jessica F Petz and Kifle Desta declare no conflicts
of interest. Torben Holm Larsen has a patent pending for the SuperTowel. He is also
a full time employee of Real Relief, the private company which developed the SuperTowel
and which holds the IPR of the product. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS
ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-36595
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216237
PMC ID: 6502319
PubMed ID: 31059540
SO-VID: fa74ac52-0b6a-4b95-b1ce-2c8a5a459994
Copyright © © 2019 White et al
License:
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: Humanitarian Innovation Fund
Award ID: 27626
Award Recipient
:
Torben Holm Larsen
This research was supported by Elrha’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF), a grant
making facility supporting organizations and individuals to identify, nurture and
share innovative and scalable solutions to the most pressing challenges facing effective
humanitarian assistance. The HIF is funded by aid from the UK government and the Swedish
International Development Agency (SIDA). The grant was awarded to THL. The grant number
is 27626. The funder website is:
http://www.elrha.org/hif/home/. Real Relief provided support for this study in the form of salary for THL. The specific
roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. The
funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish,
or preparation of the manuscript.
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