Defeating a Global Killer
Diarrheal disease is a leading killer of children under age five worldwide, responsible for the deaths of nearly 1.6 million children annually.
Are you surprised? If so, I understand why. Diarrhea is a hard thing to talk about and most of us aren’t dying from it. At best it is the subject of unfortunate jokes and at worst usually an infrequent symptom of a passing stomach virus. But there are children in the U.S. who still die from it and there are far more avoidable deaths from diarrhea around the world.
In fact, diarrheal disease is commonplace in Africa and Asia, as Nicolas Kristof and student contest winner Paul Bowers note in their recent Facebook and NYT blog posts. But it doesn’t have to be commonplace. The global health community knows what is necessary to prevent and treat diarrheal disease – there just isn’t adequate attention and funding to bring this knowledge and the tools to those who need it most.
Yesterday, PATH along with over 80 supporting organizations announced a call to action to encourage our peers in the health, development, environmental, water/sanitation, and research communities to push for adequate funding of the proven interventions that prevent and treat diarrheal disease.
This call to action comes on the heels of the releases of Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer from PATH and Fatal Neglect: How Health Systems are Failing to Comprehensively Address Child Mortality from WaterAid America which both highlight the urgent need to refocus attention on diarrheal disease. You can be part of the call to action too. Please take a few minutes to check these reports out at www.path.org and www.wateraidamerica.org.
-Dr. John Wecker, Immunization Solutions Program and Rotavirus Vaccine Program, PATH
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May 5, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Parabéns, excelente post!
May 23, 2010 at 5:08 am
Great post. thank you for sharing.
July 22, 2010 at 11:27 am
Didn’t realise this was such a serious problem. learnt something new thanks.
August 2, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Clean the World, http://www.cleantheworld.org , has found the most inexpensive prevention method. By recycling and sanitizing used hotel soap, and distributing it overseas to developing countries we can reduce the incidence of deaths due to Diarreal Disease and Acute Respiratory Illness by up to 62%.
September 5, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Thank you i will check out wateraidamerica after reading this.
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