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Sep 18, 2023
Meet the Poo Guru! She is flush with facts about toilets, sanitation, and their vital role in global health.
Vaccines protect against waterborne diseases like typhoid and cholera, which can thrive when sanitation is lacking. Together, sanitation
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Sep 18, 2023
Meet the Poo Guru! She is flush with facts about toilets, sanitation, and their vital role in global health.
Sanitation protects girls’ health, safety, and psychological wellbeing. When girls can access sanitation, communities reduce social
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Sep 18, 2023
In 1980, 14 million young children were dying every year in low-income countries – and diarrheal diseases led the count with three million deaths each year.
Trials had recently shown that 70 percent of diarrhea deaths could be prevented with oral
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Sep 15, 2023
We can't #DefeatDD if we don't talk about it.
Click here to learn more about the DefeatDD advocacy campaign!
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Sep 15, 2023
Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene—collectively known as WASH—are essential for child health. They are foundational solutions to fighting diarrheal disease.
WASH solutions should be sustainable, locally focused, and supported by policy and
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Sep 15, 2023
Integrating prevention and treatment solutions is the most practical and cost-effective way to defeat diarrheal disease. Integration can also extend to policies that address pneumonia and diarrhea together.
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Sep 15, 2023
Dr. Iturriza-Gomara is a virologist, with expertise in enteric virus infections, virus evolution, and molecular tools for diagnosing, monitoring, and tracking infections. She shared: “I am full of admiration for the many health workers who work
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Sep 15, 2023
Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe childhood diarrhea. It disproportionately burdens impoverished communities of Africa and Southeast Asia. But nearly every child in the world is at risk. Rotavirus infections cannot be treated with antibiotics
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Sep 15, 2023
As climate extremes become more common due to climate change, they will put stress on the world’s water and sanitation systems – many of which are aging, poorly planned, or nonexistent. This means more outbreaks of waterborne disease, and those
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Sep 15, 2023
In settings where medical care can be difficult to access, prevention through vaccination is the best way to protect children against the leading causes of severe diarrhea. Vaccines against rotavirus are already making a significant impact; vaccines
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