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Using oral rehydration therapy

Context

Every year 3 million children succumb to diarrhoeal disease.

Implementation

Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a low-cost life-saving method of preventing and treating the dehydration caused by diarrhoeal disease. More than one decade ago, ORT was was hardly known, but today it is being used by almost 40 percent of all families in the developing world and saving about 1 million lives each year. As of 1994, forty nations, 16 of them in Africa, have lifted ORT use rates by 30 percent or more over the last seven years.

Broader

Facilitates

Facilitated by

Problem

Dehydration
Presentable

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero HungerSustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
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Language
English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024