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Documents on diarrhoea

Key documents

• The treatment of diarrhoea: A manual for physicians and other senior health workers
  This fourth revision reflects recent clinical experience and research findings in diarrhoea case management. It includes revised guidelines on the management of children with acute diarrhoea using the new reduced (low) osmolarity ORS formulation and using zinc supplements.

• Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done
  This WHO/UNICEF report is to focus attention on the prevention and management of diarrhoeal diseases as central to improving child survival. It examines the latest information on the burden and distribution of childhood diarrhoea.

2013

• Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
  The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)
• Short-term effects of breastfeeding: a systematic review on the benefits of breastfeeding on diarrhoea and pneumonia mortality

2011

• Caring for newborns and children in the community
  Caring for the sick child
• Priority medicines for mothers and children 2011
  Ensuring access to priority medicines for mothers and children improves health and saves lives.

2010

• Facts for life
  Fourth edition
• WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

2009

• Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done
• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  Consultation proceedings, Geneva, 26–27 March 2009

2008

• Introducing zinc in a diarrhoeal control programme
  Guide to conducting formative research

2007

• Production of zinc tablets and zinc oral solutions
  Guidelines for programme managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers

• The treatment of diarrhoea
  A manual for physicians and other senior health workers

2004

• A simple solution
  TIME; October 16, 2006, pp40-47
• CHERG methods and assumptions for diarrhoea mortality estimates
• Clinical management of acute diarrhoea
  WHO/Unicef joint statement
• Diarrhoea treatment guidelines including new recommendations for the use of ORS and zinc supplementation for clinic-based healthcare workers
• Guidelines for the control of shigellosis, including epidemics due to Shigella dysenteriae type 1
• Implementing the new recommendations on the clinical management of diarrhoea
  Guidelines for policy makers and programme managers
• Oral Rehydration Salts
  Production of the new ORS

2002

• Improving diarrhoea estimates

2001

• IMCI technical seminars