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  • Diarrhoeal disease kills more children than Aids, malaria and measles combined, they point out.

    The health goal that is a dirty word 2010

  • Diarrhoeal diseases and lower respiratory infections, which are well known to be associated with living conditions, continued to be among the top five killers of young SA children.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • "Diarrhoeal diseases alone claim 55 child lives every day,"

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease in Dhaka will receive $325,000 and the Dhaka Dental College will receive $88,200 to assist with their important work.

    Australian Aid for Bangladesh 1998

  • Diarrhoeal diseases are also a major underlying factor in malnutrition.

    Chapter 12 1996

  • Diarrhoeal diseases, which claimed three million children's lives every year, were second to pneumonia.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • From being the leading cause of child death in 1980, Diarrhoeal infection had dropped to fifth place by 1982.

    Chapter 6 1985

  • · In one area of Turkey, the number of cases of Diarrhoeal inaction which had to be referred to fully qualified doctors has fallen from 34% to 4% since Assistant Nurse Midwives began taking oral rehydration salts into village homes and teaching their use.

    Chapter 6 1985

  • · In Egypt, thousands of mothers have reduced the overall pre-school death rate from Diarrhoeal diseases by 50% - using home-made salt and sugar solutions.

    Chapter 6 1985

  • To take just one example, Bangladesh, formerly Canada's largest recipient of development assistance: We'd hear about the millions of lives saved throughout the developing world due to Canadian and other support for the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, in reducing the global burden of disease.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

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