Table 5. WASH interventions not recommended for cholera prevention and control by one or more guidelines.

Recommendation	Total (n)	WHO, 2004	Oxfam, 2012	ACF, 2013	UNICEF, 2013	MSF, 2017	Sphere, 2018	ICDDR’B, 2018	GTFCC, 2019	Transmission domain
Improving the quality of water: water treatment at source
Chlorination of unimproved water sources (e.g. unprotected wells, unlined wells)	2NR	×	×	×	NR	NR	×	×	×	Community
Promotion and distribution of disinfection and cleaning of households and community spaces and/or distribution of materials
Disinfection of households with chlorine spraying (especially vomit and faeces)	4NR	×	NR	NR	NR	NR	×	×	×	Household
Disinfection of non-households with chlorine spraying (e.g. in vehicles, marketplaces)	4NR	×	NR	NR	NR	NR	×	×	×	Community
Provision of disinfection materials to households for household cleaning and disinfection (e.g. detergents, 0.5–2% chlorine solution)	1NR	×	NR	✓	✓	✓	×	×	×	Household
Improving dead body management and safe funeral practices
Promotion or provision of hygiene materials to households for safe and hygienic corpse preparation (e.g. detergents, 0.5–2% chlorine solution, body bags)	1NR	✓	NR	✓	✓	✓	×	×	×	Household
Use of vector control interventions to reduce flies
Reduction of fly populations through insecticide spraying in breeding areas	1NR	×	NR	×	×	×	×	×	×	Community

✓ - Present in guideline; × - Not found in guideline; NR—Not recommended; “Household” and “Community” denote the two levels of cholera transmission and where WASH interventions would be implemented and used; WHO- World Health Organization, MSF- Médecins Sans Frontières, ICDDR’B- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, ACF- Action Contre la Faim, UNICEF- United Nations Children’s Fund, GTFCC- Global Task Force on Cholera Control