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Apr 17, 2024
Teacher Uttama Pal underscores the importance of children’s participation in lessons on basic hygiene and toilet use.
Apr 03, 2024
Let’s further efforts to increase fair compensation and gender equity for health workers.
Mar 27, 2024
The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for infants to support healthy growth and development. But why is this recommended? And when women face barriers breastfeeding, what alternatives exist to provide nutrients to newborns?
Mar 20, 2024
A child having a lipid based nutrient supplement (LNS) in Bangladesh. Photo: icddr,b.
Deaths caused by diarrhea among children less than five years old are highest in poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, including here in
Mar 06, 2024
In recent months, numerous news articles have detailed global cholera outbreaks. What do we know about cholera, and why are these outbreaks so prevalent?
Feb 21, 2024
Increasingly, conflict, displacement, and climate change impact access to life-saving vaccines. These factors can result in millions of children around the world not receiving immunizations, often described as “zero-dose children”.
Feb 14, 2024
Are we ready to face the heat of 2024? This continuing record-breaking average global temperature is being exacerbated. How will this influence the prevalence of diarrheal diseases?
Feb 07, 2024
Rotavirus vaccines became available in 2006. How have they made an impact?
Jan 24, 2024
There are six pathogens that are responsible for the majority of childhood diarrhea: Shigella, rotavirus, adenovirus, enterotoxigenic E. coli, Cryptosporidium, and Campylobacter. But what exactly is rotavirus?
Jan 10, 2024
As we ready ourselves for the new year, let’s learn from past blogs by taking a look at the top five DefeatDD blogs–reader’s favorites–in 2023
