Diarrhoea treatment fails to reach the poorest children
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 08:35
in Health & Medicine
Acute dehydration caused by diarrhoea is one of the most common causes of death amongst children in low and middle-income countries. A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet now shows that almost half a billion cases of child diarrhoea a year could be treated if they all received treatment equal to the best standards in their home countries...