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Childhood mortality from diarrhoea ‘has fallen in last decade’
A new study has highlighted the considerable progress that has been made on reducing childhood mortality caused by diarrhoea in the last decade.
The University of Washington research, published in The Lancet, has indicated that the number of children dying from diarrhoea worldwide fell by one-third between 2005 and 2015, thanks to improved access to clean water, reduction of childhood undernutrition and the introduction of a vaccine for rotavirus.
However, diarrhoea remains the fourth largest cause of childhood mortality worldwide, with an estimated 525,000 children under five dying through problems related to diarrhoea, rising to 1.3 million deaths when considering people of all ages.
It was also noted that 42 percent of all deaths as a result of diarrhoea were recorded in India and Nigeria alone. India saw around 100,000 children dying from this cause in 2015, while in Nigeria around 150,000 children under the age of five die as a result of the condition annually.
Dr Ali Mokdad of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington said: "Immediate and sustained actions must be taken to help low-income countries address this problem by increasing healthcare access and the use of oral rehydration solutions."
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