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A caregiver dressed in a bright, patterned outfit holds a young child on their lap in a hospital room. The child is being fed or given medicine by a healthcare professional. The room has a bed and medical equipment in the background.
Feb 12, 2018

Diarrhea, the time thief

A child in Sudan receives ORS during a hospital stay for severe diarrhea. PATH/Doune Porter.   Global deaths from diarrhea are falling, rapidly. This is encouraging news—it means that fewer parents are living with the tragedy of a child lost to ...
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A healthcare worker in a blue shirt assists a child lying on a table while two adults and a child observe. Another child is carried on the back of an adult. The setting is a clinic with a brick wall and chalkboard in the background.
Feb 07, 2018

If childhood stunting is a three-legged stool, poor gut health is one leg

Dr. Mark Manary, one of the world’s foremost experts in childhood malnutrition, screens children in Chikweo, Malawi. Photo: Carol Lin.  
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People walk along a dirt path surrounded by green fields and makeshift shelters under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The shelters extend up a hillside in the background, indicating a densely populated area. Several individuals carry bamboo poles.

icddr,b launches a preemptive strike against cholera with vaccines

The emergency The Rohingyas are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group who, for centuries, resided in the Buddhist-dominant Rakhine State of Myanmar. However, they are not considered by Myanmar as one of their 135 official ethnic groups and have been d...
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A group of smiling children outdoors, two in the foreground gesturing enthusiastically towards the camera. One child holds a plastic container. The background features more children and a dirt-covered, rural setting. The scene exudes joy and energy.
Nov 10, 2017

Killing two bugs with one strategy

If pneumonia and diarrhea—the two biggest infectious killers of children worldwide—were personified as serial killers, I imagine that they would look very different. Pneumonia might be tall and spindly, with long, wispy fingers. Diarrhea, on the ...
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A young girl stands smiling in front of two women, one elderly and one middle-aged, all dressed in vibrant saris. They are positioned outside a building with the woman in red adjusting her scarf, and the woman in green wearing glasses.
Oct 25, 2017

Women lead the way to a healthier India

Indian women are educating themselves and helping their children grow into healthy, productive citizens.
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A woman squats on the ground, using sign language to communicate with a group of children gathered around her. The children look attentively at her gestures. They're standing in an open area, with brick buildings in the background. The woman is wearing a pink scarf.
Oct 12, 2017

A healthy future is in our hands

This post also appears on the Global Handwashing Day website.  
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Hands reaching into a body of water, with ripples and bubbles visible on the surface. The lighting creates a silvery sheen on the water.
Sep 22, 2017

After the floods: Diarrheal disease threats lurk behind natural disasters

After the rain stops and the floodwaters recede, another threat looms.
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Two young girls are standing in front of a brick wall and window. The older girl is wearing a denim jacket, cat ear headband, and a backpack. The younger girl is in a pink top. A round clock is visible in the background through the window.
Sep 12, 2017

Children: the most persistent and passionate advocates

Children are also ideal targets for hygiene lessons because they are adaptable and amenable to change.
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Illustration of a parent with two children, balancing between "Diarrhea treatment" on one side and "Food, shelter, education" with money on the other. Text reads: "Families shouldn't have to choose. Join the movement to #DefeatDD.
Sep 05, 2017

An impossible choice: The dangerous disruption of diarrhea treatment costs

Diarrhea is a medical and economic crisis for vulnerable families.
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A child in red clothing walks through a narrow, colorful alley of a brick-built neighborhood, holding a green bowl. A woman on the left does laundry, standing on a ladder. A man in the background gestures while standing. Various hanging laundry and cables are visible.
Aug 24, 2017

Surprising sanitation lessons in Delhi

I knew enough to know that Delhi would be unlike any other place I’d ever visited. I knew to expect heart-stopping auto rides, colorful chaos, seemingly impossible juxtapositions of gleaming office buildings and tattered tents, and delicious chai w...
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