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Diarrheal Diseases

A health worker giving oral rehydration salts to a baby held by his mother at a village health clinic in China.

BASICS conducted assessments in Indonesia and Madagascar to gauge each country’s readiness to introduce zinc for the treatment of diarrhea. In Indonesia, this effort was followed by collaboration with the Ministry of Health and its partners update the national standard treatment for diarrhea case management for young children. The project also designed a year-long initiative in 2007 to help revitalize diarrheal disease case management in Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya through a regional strategy. And, USAID/BASICS was a main contributor to the Ministry of Health’s diarrhea revitalization strategy in DR Congo.

Click here to read the final report for BASICS' Diarrheal Diseases program.