The research was to describe the situation and find out some factors related to building, using and maintaining household latrine in Tan Hoa commune - Phu Sinh district-Thai Nguyen province in 2011. The results indicated that 85 percent households have their own latrine but there are only 9.48 percent household with standardized latrine. Type of latrines in the survey area: septic tank (11.4 percent)
biogas (4.3 percent)
DVC (66.7 percent)
pour flush (0.4 percent). Using and maintaining without following standard. The risk average score of DVC, septic tank and pour flush are 0.59
0.1 and 0.74, respectively. Finding some factors relating to using and maintaining hygienic latrine are farming, poor households, the lack of knowledge about hygienic latrine. Based on the results of the research
the authors have suggested some solutions to improve the situation of using household hygienic latrine with government and citizens.