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Preventing 5 million child deaths from diarrhea in the next 5 years

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Despite major advances in understanding its prevention and treatment, diarrhea remains a leading cause of global child deaths and a potentially important cause of lifelong morbidity. A new study asks the question: how many lives would be saved by universal scaling up of best practices for diarrhea prevention and control?

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Figure 1: Percentage of child deaths under 5 years of age averted in 2015 via the universal scale-up of a program for the prevention and treatment of diarrhea in 68 high priority countries.

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  1. Hepatology and Nutrition Division, Gastroenterology, Center for Global Child Health, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, MLC 2010, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 22908, USA

    Sean R. Moore

  2. INCT–Institute of Biomedicine & Clinical Research Unit/Center for Global Health Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, R. Cel. Nunes de Melo No. 1315, Rodolfo Teófilo, 60.30-270, CEP, Brazil

    Aldo A. M. Lima

  3. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, HSC Box 801379, Center for Global Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22908, VA, USA

    Richard L. Guerrant

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Moore, S., Lima, A. & Guerrant, R. Preventing 5 million child deaths from diarrhea in the next 5 years. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 8, 363–364 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2011.103

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