Latin America

Diarrhea claims the lives of almost 20,000 children under 5 in the Americas every year, most of these in Latin America,1 and scores more suffer severe episodes that require hospitalization. But these lives don’t have to be lost or jeopardized.

Click through the links at the left to learn more about the committed organizations tackling childhood diarrheal disease from a number of areas, from innovative water filters to rotavirus vaccines.

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·         Video: Rotavirus vaccines make a dramatic impact in Nicaragua

·         Blog: Safe water and new beginnings in Haiti

 

 

1 Black R, et al. Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis Lancet. 2010;375(9730):1969-1987.

 

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