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Apr 03, 2024

How do healthcare workers defeat diarrheal disease?

Let’s further efforts to increase fair compensation and gender equity for health workers.

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Mar 27, 2024

How does human milk banking help ensure child health?

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?

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Mar 20, 2024

In Bangladesh, WASH has significant impact in high disease burden households

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 Bangladesh.

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Mar 06, 2024

Why do we keep seeing cholera in the news?

In recent months, numerous news articles have detailed global cholera outbreaks. What do we know about cholera, and why are these outbreaks so prevalent?

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Feb 21, 2024

Zero-dose children are an indicator of broader inequities

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

Getting ahead of diarrhea outbreaks in 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?

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Feb 07, 2024

Findings from more than a decade of rotavirus vaccine roll-out

Rotavirus vaccines became available in 2006. How have they made an impact?

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Jan 24, 2024

How does rotavirus cause diarrhea?

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?